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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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Burnham pledges £900m for homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping
…g rough sleeping. “Burnham is throwing another £432m at a problem he failed to solve in Greater Manchester,” she said. “Under Labour, rough sleeping has hit record highs – yet their answer is always more taxpayers’ money and more empty promises.” Referring to the chancellor, Lam said: “[John] Healey must use his budget this week to cut taxes for working people, get the ballooning benefits bill under control, and stop pushing up energy prices. Instead of piling more costs on to hard-working people, Healey must focus on easing the cost of living and delivering real value for taxpayers’ money.”
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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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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Snowy Hydro 2.0 is costing $25bn – 12 times more than its initial estimate. How did we get here?
…ictoria over the next few years – and as demand grows due to datacentres. “But it’s just a really expensive thing for what it will get used for,” Edis said. Asked on Friday if $25bn was a good use of taxpayers’ money, the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, told News24 it was a “fair question” but he believed the development would “provide net benefits to the Australian people”. He stressed the scale of the development – a power station the size of the Sydney Opera House a kilometre underground, with tunnelling in terrain that wasn’t properly understood from the start – and decl…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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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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Alberta voters overwhelmingly reject plan to leave Canada in referendum
…se, with Alberta at its centre. The results showed an overwhelming majority of Albertans had voted to remain and one radio show host posted: “Someone owes Albertans $130m for this theatrical waste of taxpayers’ money.” Pollster David Coletto told the Guardian that residents felt the referendum was “a distraction away” from what they wanted their government to focus on. “There was almost a general sadness about the wasted energy spent on this rather than the more real threats they see, including the Trump administration,” he said. “Most Albertans feel deep grievances with the federal governme…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Minns accused of bypassing high court ruling with laws to allow NSW mine to increase coal production by 32%
…pany, it’s become apparent that there are 400 jobs on the line that will go before Christmas without this intervention,” Minns said on Monday. He said if the bill passed, MACH Energy had agreed to a “jobs guarantee” to ensure that the current permanent workforce was retained until 2032. The NSW Greens climate spokesperson and environmental lawyer Sue Higginson said: “This is an incredible new low for the Minns Labor government, bypassing the planning process and the law as laid down by the high court of Australia. “One thing is clear, under Labor the coal mining giants are writing the laws,…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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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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Wes Streeting in US for Hegseth meeting as Ukraine tensions escalate – as it happened
…asked if he believed “in criminal penalties for those who facilitated this invasion of the English Isles”, he replied: Totally, totally. The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind. They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way. These are people [who are] are deluded – deluded, hard-left socialist Marxists, who don’t believe in countries, don’t believe in borders, don’t believe in identities, are intent on destroying everything that exists. The Charity Commission head is expected…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecuted
…: “Do you believe in criminal penalties for those who facilitated this invasion of the English Isles?” Farage replied: “Totally, totally. The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind. They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way. “These are people [who are] are deluded – deluded, hard-left socialist Marxists, who don’t believe in countries, don’t believe in borders, don’t believe in identities, are intent on destroying everything that exists.” Farage has previously described the RN…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state
…cocaine importer – the EU agreed to give an extra €90m to Sierra Leone. In January 2025, another €35m was unlocked at a Freetown meeting with EU officials. Other deals involved tens of millions of EU taxpayers’ money paid directly into Sierra Leone’s treasury. After the Arconian seizure, on 9 June 2026, Brussels opened the European chamber of commerce in Freetown to boost investment. Its inaugural president was the Sierra Leonean head of the shipping company whose employee John Conteh died at Freetown’s port. Strengthening democracy was a core ambition of European investment in Sierra Leone.…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Lobbying, lawyers and a media blitz: the fight to kill the Church of England’s £100m slavery compensation fund
…t opponents was a Church of England vicar who appeared on GB News days after the fund was announced in January 2023, to say it would put parishioners off donating to the church. “We keep hearing that there is no money left,” he said. “And now suddenly, they’ve found £100m down the back of the sofa, to pay for this. You can imagine how I felt.” A torrent of similar views has followed, with significant coverage in media organisations that are owned or backed by Marshall. The Spectator, which Marshall bought in 2024 for £100m, has hosted repeated criticism, including one piece by Biggar entitle…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
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Heathrow’s third runway is a bottomless money pit. Stop it now
It won’t promote growth, will take decades and will swallow up billions of taxpayers’ money, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins Infrastructure sends politicians berserk. Propose more money for the health service or reopening youth clubs and frowns break out all round. Can we afford it? But shout infrastructure and cheers go up. The word suggests glamour, chest-beating and “growth”. Reason flies out of the window. The saga of Heathrow’s third runway beggars belief. A foreign-owned private company wants to make more money out of its cramped west London investment. The airlines are sceptical…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit is a Conservative classic. After all, it was George Osborne’s high-profile pledge to “take the family home out of inheritance tax” in 2007 that put Gordon Brown off calling a snap general election. In practice, Osborne’s plan involved a £1m threshold for inheritance tax – and given the global financial crisis had blown a hole in the public finances by the time the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition came to power in 2010, it never came to pass. But the promi…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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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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As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’
…incredibly wealthy” people, Badenoch switched the subject to the amount spent on benefits for people not working She replied: This policy is about people at that cliff edge. What is not a good use of taxpayers money is paying thousands and thousands of people who can work, not to work. Kemi Badenoch recorded her interview with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday. It is playing out on the programme now. In it, Badenoch defended her plan to extend free childcare to high earners. (See 9.08am.) She said: What we want to see is that people who work harder don’t get punished for doing so. If you earn £100…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes
…king the size of the state. As with “maxing out the credit card”, it forms part of the inquisition every time a minister goes on the TV or radio with a new spending measure: “That’s all very well but how are you going to pay for it?” Burnham is committed to re-industrialising Britain, but to do so he will have to break with the neoliberal convention that it is not the job of the government to pick winners. As the prime minister should point out, China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea have all built up their manufacturing strength by picking winners, and Britain could do the same. Indeed, the o…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card