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Financial Times 665 - Budget blues

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Budget blues

AI: Is Britain prepared?

Reform in hot water … again

Burnham vs Badenoch: Commons showdown

What Burnham told the FT

Burnham: To drill or not to drill?

Farage wins… and donation probe resumes

Will Farage’s gamble pay off?

Burnham’s policy bonanza

Burnham’s economic vision

Andy Burnham’s cabinet: who’s in, who’s out?

The Burnham era begins: Mahmood set for chancellor?

Farage in a fix; Burnham unbeatable

Nigel Farage tries to ‘take back control’

Power to the North: Burnham’s big idea

Live special: Ten years after Brexit

Can anyone challenge Andy Burnham for PM?

Exit Starmer, enter Burnham

Unseating Starmer: Burnham’s next move

Makerfield or bust: Burnham goes for broke

The Nowak murder: when tragedy meets politics

Should Labour heed Tony Blair?

Game on: All eyes on Makerfield by-election

Burnham eyes Labour crown as Starmer clings on

Ask Political Fix: Starmer’s fightback, election turmoil and defence

Election special: snap analysis

Labour braces for ballot box bloodbath

Introducing: The Story of Money

The Mandelson-Starmer saga stumbles on

Labour lambasted over defence

Squeezed Britain: student loans, salaries and strikes

Trump taunts drive Starmer into EU’s arms

The case for keeping Starmer

Introducing Untold: Opus Dei

Angela’s ambitions

Mandelson mess and Middle East U-turns

Iran shock for Starmer

Green grief for Starmer: by-election special

Farage against the machine

Mandarin mayhem

Mandelson, money - and the risk to the prime minister

Chinese whispers — at home and abroad

When the ‘special relationship’ isn’t so special

Disloyalty and defection: the Tory-Reform psychodrama

Trump trouble: Starmer's tricky start to 2026

Swamp Notes: Is the US economy really K-shaped?

Quizmas special: Political Fix’s 2025 nerd-out!

Political Fix Live: Labour’s year in review

Deals, donations and damage limitation

Bonus: What does the 2025 Budget mean for your money?