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What was said, and which frame it usedEvery item the dashboard counts, newest first. The marked words are the phrases that made it count; the tags say whether it used an opposing frame, an MMT-consistent idea, or named MMT. These are keyword matches: whether an item endorses or attacks an idea is shown once our classifier's accuracy is published.
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Healey’s first budget to include big devolution package to boost growth
…and businesses that have struggled as the war in the Middle East has driven up bills. These higher costs have also pushed up the interest rates on government borrowing, making it harder for Healey to balance the books. He will set out how he plans to fully fund the four-year defence investment plan announced in the dying days of Keir Starmer’s premiership. However, Healey is not expected to say when the UK will commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence – an issue that was central to his resignation from Starmer’s cabinet. This is likely to be delayed until a spending review due at some point n…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Friday briefing: How a leaderless student group is challenging power in Serbia
…?” Totally perplexing this question needed to be asked. I’d be filing for divorce. Michael I’ve spent way too much time playing our new budget game, where you step into John Healey’s shoes and try to balance the books, while keeping backbenchers and the markets happy. Humbling but a lot of fun. Lucinda I spent a week of my year seven summer holiday as an extra in the History Boys film (it was shot at my school). Nadia Khomami reports on its return to the stage, but fails to mention my scene-stealing cameo … Michael A fascinating video about why timekeepers from 69 countries have voted to do…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs as profits jump ahead of looming bank tax; French bond yields hit fresh 24-year high – as it happened
…Gulf – is hosting a security council meeting to try and put out the fires at home. We’ve launched a fun (??) game – you can pretend to be the UK chancellor and play the budget game to see if you can balance the books. See if you can do a better job than John Healey at creating a budget that keeps MPs and the bond markets onside. The French 10-year government bond yield has risen above the equivalent US Treasury yield for the first time since 2013. The French yield, or interest rate, jumped 10 basis points to 5.09% this morning, while the 10-year US Treasury yield fell 4bps to 5.07%. With hi…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the books
See if you can do a better job than John Healey at creating a budget that keeps MPs and the bond markets onside The challenge On 28 October, John Healey will announce the autumn budget to parliament. As in all years, the chancellor has to strike a balance between the following: Raising the money needed to fund the services that voters demand. Keeping taxes at levels that are acceptable to voters. Persuading the government’s creditors in the bond markets that it will continue to be able to pay its debts. The game In our game you get to try your hand at designing a successful budget. Can you ke…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Covid inquiry report shows why culture of care workers being undervalued must end, says Andy Burnham – as it happened
…s of diminished responsibility. Emma Webber, Barnaby’s mother, said: “This is long overdue, and simply the right thing to do. It was a disgrace that Calocane and offenders like him have ever received taxpayers’ money.” The proposed regulations apply to individuals subject to a section 37 order under the Mental Health Act 1983 and a section 57A order under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. The offences covered include manslaughter, attempted murder, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, rape, assault by penetration and rape of a child under 13. Murder is not included a…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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‘Countries are defying gravity’: how much longer can global economy resist chaos?
…late. Russia’s delegation was allowed to attend the G20 meeting, to the deep discomfort of UK delegates. The UK received a positive review from Georgieva and her colleagues, for setting out a plan to balance the books; though she conceded the bond markets had not rewarded its prudence. “The UK is actually one country where action to reduce the deficit has been taken decisively,” she said. Asked why the UK’s bond yields have not fallen accordingly, Georgieva said London’s status as a global financial centre tended to put the UK under additional scrutiny. “Traditionally we’ve seen more attenti…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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IMF suggests UK should cut spending rather than raise taxes on banks, as Healey prepares budget raid – as it happened
…]. Asked about the possibility at John Healey’s upcoming budget, Helge Berger, the economist who is deputy director in the IMF’s European department, suggested there might be better places to look to balance the books. Berger pointed out that Healey’s predecessor, Rachel Reeves, had raised taxes in her budgets, saying: “The last two budgets involved increasing government revenue, and ultimately there’s a moment where this becomes less productive but there’s still areas where Britain can make additional headroom available: modernising the property taxes or VAT, these are good examples. We wou…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – as it happened
…ritish. “We are not like them. We are different. We are the Conservative Party.” But apart from that, it was a long, rather disconnected lecture setting out the case for a Tory party that believes in living within our means against a Labour Party that wants to tax, spend and borrow. From Steve Richards, the writer and broadcaster A well delivered speech from K Badenoch.. but sums don’t remotely add up in her ‘something for everyone’ speech..and the ‘something’ was largely targeted at a few wealthy voters. She’s right to rule out any deal with Reform..but that means her future depends on Refo…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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‘Visible and engaged’: Burnham in listening mode with businesses at Labour party conference
…ay about the budget, despite striking a markedly different tone to Burnham’s “in hock” comment from a year earlier – insisting that he and the prime minister were “in lockstep” in their commitment to balance the books. “There is nothing progressive about losing control because it’s always working people who pay for it,” he said. Shevaun Haviland, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said Healey’s speech was “significant” because the chancellor had acknowledged that private enterprise was vital for helping the UK economy to grow. However, she warned that companies still f…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Healey offers upbeat vision but sheds little light on how it will be paid for
…ll in some of his own personal story to those outside the hall less familiar with a man who, he said, had given his first Labour conference speech a full 40 years ago, in 1986. He spoke of his wife, Jackie, whom he became engaged with a fortnight after their first meeting at a Labour function, and his first job as a pot washer in a pub, which taught him the joys of a hand-pulled pint. Yet he threw little light on how he was approaching a budget now exactly a month away, other than to recommit to Reeves’s determination to balance the books, which will take more than optimism and a good story.
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Healey signals welfare reform push and new apprenticeships scheme
…rogressive to allow a bigger and bigger benefits bill and a system which offers an income but doesn’t offer a future. So, once again, as a Labour government it falls to us to act.” Insisting he would balance the books while fleshing out Andy Burnham’s plans to strengthen “growth in every postcode”, Healey said he and the prime minister were in lockstep in their commitment to balance the books. “That commitment is so important. There is nothing progressive about losing control because it’s always working people who pay for it,” he said. Against a backdrop of jitters in financial markets as th…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Andy Burnham to fight next election with plan for NHS-style care service
…acknowledged there was “real concern” in the financial markets about the state of the British economy, pointing to the “febrile” global backdrop. He said he was willing to cut government spending to balance the books, and he believed money could be saved by taking a more “productive” long-term approach to issues such as rough sleeping and youth unemployment. Amid concerns that the government could be hemmed in at the budget by the parlous state of the public finances, he said the chancellor, John Healey, would be “highly prudent” in running the economy. “I won’t do what the previous Tory go…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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As it happened: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
…d expessed doubts about the plan in the past. Again, Burnham gave a non-committal answer. Kuenssberg tried a final time and got the same reply. Q: Will you tell us something you are willing to cut to balance the books? Burnham said, if people wait unti his speech on Tuesday, they will see he is “prepared to take those type of decisions because I won’t do what the previous Conservative government did and take risks with the economy”. He said the fundamentals of the economy were moving in the right direction before the Iran war started. And he said John Healey, the chancellor, was clear about…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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‘Rip the plaster off’: Andy Burnham sets out vision for universal free social care
…real concern” in the financial markets about the state of the British economy, pointing to the “febrile” state of global backdrop. The prime minister said he was willing to cut government spending to balance the books – but also that he believed money could be saved by taking a more “productive” long-term approach to issues such as rough sleeping and youth unemployment. Amid concerns that the government could be hemmed in at the budget by the parlous state of the public finances, he said that the chancellor, John Healey, would be “highly prudent” in running the economy. “I won’t do what the…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Oil falls below $100 a barrel; UK government borrowing paints ‘dismal picture’ as bond vigilantes assemble – as it happened
…me to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. Britain’s national debt is rising faster than expected after the government borrowed more than expected, again, to balance the books. The latest public finances data, just released, shows that the UK borrowed £18.3bn in August, which is £2.9bn more than in August 2025, as spending rose faster than government income. This is higher than the £15.6bn forecast by the City. But more importantly, it’s £3.5bn above the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)‘s forecast for August. And it means that so far this finan…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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‘A completely unique opportunity’: the secretive process that will decide the BBC’s future
…changing technology and changing habits. Year on year, fewer and fewer people are using the BBC, and fewer and fewer people are paying for it. Hundreds of millions of pounds in cuts are under way to balance the books. This charter renewal is its only chance to turn back those tides. And yet in my interviews with 30 experts and BBC and government insiders over the past year, most struggled to tell me exactly what the charter is. One former director general told me simply: “The charter is … the charter.” Part of the difficulty of comprehending the charter lies in the difficulty of grasping th…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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UK government pays highest interest rate on 30-year bond since 1998
…rate since the Debt Management Office, which is responsible for financing government borrowing, was established in 1998. Healey used a speech in Coventry on Monday to stress that he was determined to balance the books. Markets have been spooked by fears of a fresh rise in inflation after the resumption of the Middle East conflict increased oil prices, and investors fretting about the risks of rising public debt. When the Office for Budget Responsibility does its latest forecast before the budget on 28 October, higher interest rates on government borrowing are expected to wipe out at least ha…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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John Healey backs growth but says Labour must be honest on spending
…eceipts by 2029-30. With the public finances under pressure from soaring long-term bond yields, which hit an 18-year high last week, Healey argued that stronger growth was the most sustainable way to balance the books. However, he also signalled that his budget would require Labour “being honest about the need to control government spending”. Economists have warned the chancellor could be forced to increase taxes or cut spending in response to rising spending pressures and the economic fallout from the war in Iran triggering turmoil in global bond markets. The UK’s 10-year borrowing costs ro…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Premier League 2026-27 preview No 17: Newcastle
…enue and Newcastle’s income is around half of that of some key rivals. They are now in a three-year “settlement agreement” with Uefa after breaching European cost control regulations and, in a bid to balance the books, have not merely sold Gordon, Tonali and Guimarães but implemented a policy of broadly signing players under 25 priced between £20m and £40m. “We were living beyond our means but at some point you have got to pay the credit card bill,” said Hopkinson. Meanwhile, the seemingly interminable wait for confirmation that a new training ground will be built near the airport at Woolsin…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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Andrew Bragg stands by proposed migration limits – even as Liberal colleagues decline to back him in
…also acknowledged the role he played in former Coalition governments, including the Morrison government’s inability to get the federal budget into a promised surplus. “As someone who was a backbencher in the Morrison government, I am sorry I didn’t do more to stop the madness,” he said. “I believe the new liberalism Australia needs isn’t socialism and it isn’t conservatism seeking to turn back the clock. “The madness started when Canberra gave up on the budget … whenever a politician announces more spending, they are stealing from tomorrow because there is no intention to balance the books.”
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- MMT-consistent idea: Deficit myth