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Get the latest intelligence on the UK general election from the FT's quick-witted columnist and associate editor Stephen Bush. Every weekday Inside Politics guides readers through the parties' political strategies and how they work, as well as the policy stories that matter.

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Social affairs
    Think you can define Britain’s ‘wealthy’? Think again

    Deciding who is well-off is no simple task — and calculating how to redistribute should be left to elected politicians

    An electricity smart meter
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Scottish National party
    SNP’s Swinney ‘steadying the ship’ as tariffs test Scottish resilience

    First minister focuses on improving NHS, plus Greens co-leader urges party unity after calling time on 17-year tenure

    First minister John Swinney gives a press conference
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    UK politics
    Labour must spell out what UK growth will pay for

    Focusing on benefits to voters’ wallets would help blunt the threat posed by the likes of Nigel Farage

    Keir Starmer delivers a speech about using AI to spur growth
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK politics
    In defence of Milton Keynes

    It is not perfect, but city’s infrastructure-led development and long-term planning may hold key to Labour’s new towns agenda

    Keir Starmer visits Newport Pagnell, wearing a hi-vis jacket
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    UK politics
    Labour’s trade and tariff balancing act

    Plus, UK tries to negotiate Trump’s minimum rate and broader US economic deal but none of this looks easy

    Rachel Reeves at RAF Northolt in London
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    UK politics
    What do young Britons really think?

    Starmer firm on votes at 16 as new youth polling lands, plus digital public services are no miracle cure

    Young people walk by the HM Revenue and Customs building
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Education
    Labour’s goal to get kids ‘school ready’ needs a shared script

    Disconnection on skills required to start Reception class is impacting learning as family support squeezed

    Keir Starmer with young children
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Reform party UK
    ‘Unite the right’ ideas put to town hall test

    Formal coalition is off the table but Tories and Reform leave door open to local ‘confidence and supply’ deals

    Nigel Farage meets supporters
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    The limits of the UK-US ‘special relationship’

    Britain lacks leverage in Trump tariff negotiations, with UK diplomatic and economic priorities looking increasingly European

    Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    UK politics
    ‘Manchester-style’ mayoralty will not work in London

    Proposals to limit the dynamism of Sadiq Khan’s office give voters less — not more — democratic control

    England’s regional mayors pose for a photo outside of 10 Downing Street
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    UK politics
    Labour’s diplomatic achievement on tariffs will not pay electoral dividends

    Despite UK’s relatively low levy, there is little to gain from being seen to be palling up to Donald Trump

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  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    UK politics
    Minimum wage rises do not seem to boost UK productivity

    Big increases in statutory wage floor has raised workplace intensity, shutting some jobseekers out of employment

    A close-up of George Osborne in central London
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    UK politics
    What should combating racial sentencing disparities look like?

    Sentencing Council’s treatment of ethnic minority status as an unchanging fact of life was the wrong approach

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  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    UK politics
    Sentencing Council’s new guidelines are corrosive and unfair

    Varying pre-sentencing approach based on ethnicity risks eroding support for things we know work

    Shabana Mahmood walking out of 10 Downing Street
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    UK politics
    Who will the force be with in May?

    Elections to councils and mayoralties are a litmus test for minor parties’ prospects

    Nigel Farage, Reform UK leader, speaks on stage during a Reform UK Conference. The backdrop says the words: ‘Britain needs Reform’
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement did not stem fiscal doom loop

    Labour’s policy mix will not break the cycle of making irreconcilable promises on tax, spending and public services

    Rachel Reeves speaking at the despatch box. Other MPs are visible behind her
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK infrastructure
    Lower Thames Crossing and Old Trafford projects are welcome investments

    New infrastructure schemes show public-private partnership at its best

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  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    UK politics
    US officials’ leaked messages should spur Europe into action

    Comments from vice-president and defence secretary show why Europe must chart its own path on defence

    Headshot of US vice-president JD Vance looking off to the side
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    UK politics
    Keir Starmer’s Trump act is politically damaging but necessary

    Maintaining ambiguity about the US president and Nato could make the government seem deluded

    Keir Starmer speaks to Royal Navy Submariners of the HMS Agamemnon nuclear submarine and BAE Systems apprentices outside of the BAE Systems factory in Barrow-in-Furness
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement will lay bare impending policy trade-offs

    Labour’s superficially good position could be rocked by the challenges coming down the track

    Farmers protest against inheritance tax in London
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK politics
    ‘Fiscal rules’ has become a stock phrase

    Government’s internal debate will only move forward when focus shifts to income tax or reversing national insurance cuts

    A headshot of Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    UK politics
    No one knows why UK benefit claims have outpaced peer countries

    Asking why might well result in answers that involve spending more money

    Liz Kendall speaks during a ‘Welfare Reform’ statement at the House of Commons
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    UK politics
    The Conservatives complicate the politics of net zero for Labour

    The Tories’ new stance that the target is ‘impossible’ will deter Labour from anything that looks politically painful

    Ed Miliband arrives at Downing Street
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    UK politics
    UK’s devolved governments can learn from each other on welfare reform

    There is no reason why the four countries can’t share information to see which approach is working

    A teacher and pupils in a classroom
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    NHS England
    Starmer’s shake-up of NHS England is a brave move

    Abolishing the health authority is a big gamble by the prime minister but a welcome one

    The logo of the National Health Service on a wheelchair outside St Thomas’s Hospital
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