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Denis Healey

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82 days ago

Middle-class families are having to make huge life decisions based on fear, not fact. Our personal finance crusader JEFF PRESTRIDGE says it's cruel, wrong, immoral. And, worst of all, I think Reeves is enjoying it

Every day the headlines bring back recurring nightmares of 49 years ago, when Denis Healey, the Labour Chancellor, went cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund begging for a bailout.

2 months ago

Kemi Badenoch warns debt crisis could force UK to seek 1970s-style IMF bailout - as Tory leader offers to help Starmer cut benefits to avoid tax rises

The Tory leader said she was 'really worried' the UK was risking a repeat of 1976, when chancellor Denis Healey was humiliatingly forced to seek help to keep the UK going.

10 months ago

The Guardian view on Keir Starmer’s economy: no acute crisis, but chronically weak | Editorial

Labour should ask the Bank of England if it can do more to boost growth

Recent days of market turmoil have elicited some extraordinary responses. The fact that investors are demanding higher rates to …

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