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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, 13 March, 2025
    UK politics
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  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
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    Jobs market policies could threaten the part-time vacancies that ease people back into work

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  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
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    Crucial vote is opportunity for Farage’s party to hone its election-winning machine

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  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    UK politics
    Boosted defence spending will come at cost of manifesto pledges

    Government should level with public about which promises it cannot afford to keep

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
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    Rupert Lowe threatens Reform UK schism

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  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
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    High-rise flats could help Labour hit its housing target

    The government must tackle leasehold and encourage high-density development

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  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
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    Sum of employment reforms risks stifling labour market

    The government’s far-reaching plans could make the economy less dynamic

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  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
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    Ukraine and Trump will define Starmer’s legacy

    Recent diplomatic events crystallise what is at stake for PM

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  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
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  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
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  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    UK defence spending
    Increasing defence budget will require tough trade-offs

    If Labour will not budge on tax, inflation and a persistent deficit may be the result

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  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    UK defence spending
    Labour cannot ignore Trump’s impact on defence

    The tough choices the government needs to make will inevitably mean talking about defence spending in the open

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  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
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    Nationalisation will buckle England’s railways

    Shutting out private business will mean less money for the creaking sector

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  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Reform party UK
    Reform reformed

    Can Farage’s party changes limit the scope for infighting?

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  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    UK defence spending
    In Europe’s crisis Starmer and Badenoch should learn from Sunak

    Government and opposition need to adapt approach to tackle a grave situation wrought by Donald Trump’s administration

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  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    UK prisons
    Labour’s prisons reform is a policy of necessity, not choice

    Party breaks with decades-old consensus on sending more people to jail at the risk of turning off voters

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  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    UK government spending
    Labour will have to ditch tax pledges sooner or later

    Spending cuts to fund increased defence spending will not impress UK voters and something will have to give

    Keir Starmer visiting BAE Systems to see the UK’s nuclear deterrent
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Keir Starmer
    Starmer’s most consequential moves yet

    PM open to sending troops to Ukraine and more defence spending, but whatever choice Labour makes will be politically painful

    Keir Starmer met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv last month
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Education
    One area where Labour can do more with less money

    Reforming special needs provision will not make huge savings but it offers lessons for trimming welfare spending

    Children play with toys on a spotty mat
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Labour party UK
    Donald Trump will force a fiscal reckoning on Labour

    Past governments have broken tax promises as they weigh trade-offs against bigger imperatives and geopolitics

    Rachel Reeves gives a speech
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    UK politics
    Why UK avoids picking a side in multipolar world

    Political calculation is trickier than policy as aligning with Trump camp too closely risks alienating Labour voters

    Keir Starmer stands next to a Union Jack flag
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Kemi Badenoch
    Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer’s battle of weaknesses

    Muddled purposes push main parties down in polls, with Tory leader’s biggest challenge being the Liberal Democrats

    Kemi Badenoch in the House of Commons
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    UK politics
    AI can help fix potholes, but we need to get basics right first

    Successful innovation abounds but a centralised approach to roll out tech across local government is required

    People are reflected in a window that states ‘let’s get real about AI’
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    UK politics
    Is Trump making the political weather for Labour?

    Party struggles to convince on growth and improving services but risks mimicking the right to communicate ‘change’

    Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer meet hospital staff in Coventry
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