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Highlights

Kwarteng’s mini-Budget is unfair, unsustainable – and cannot succeed

This is a mini-Budget funded by borrowing, which will stoke inflation, push interest rates higher, and eventually turn to bust

John Rentoul Starmer has found a role in the war against trickle-down economics

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady What happened when other chancellors tried a ‘dash for growth’?

Andrew Grice British people are the guinea pigs in another risky Budget experiment

Voices

John Rentoul Thérèse Coffey could be an inspired appointment as health secretary

John Rentoul Liz Truss is surprisingly reluctant to take credit for saving jobs

Salma Shah The Treasury can be irritating – but Liz Truss’s approach is all wrong

Long reads

Gemma Brown The murder of Sean Brown: Inherited trauma in Northern Ireland

Twenty-five years have now passed since the murder of my father’s cousin, Sean Brown. The Troubles legacy bill does nothing to heal my family’s inherited trauma, writes Gemma Brown

Andrew Grice If Truss’s ‘mini-Budget’ fails, her whole project could be doomed

Bel Trew ‘No way back to business as usual’: The Baltics seek to counter Russia

Politics Explained

Politics explained

Alastair Jamieson The mini-Budget is a constitutional gamble, too

Politics explained

Rob Merrick Why Labour’s conference is set to give Starmer a PR voting headache

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady Brexit and democracy outweigh religion in modern Northern Ireland

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady Rees-Mogg’s energy plan for business is only for the short term

Most Commented

‘Tory sleazy festering’ under Liz Truss, says Angela Rayner – live

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Labour in line for big majority and Boris Johnson could lose his seat, poll suggests

297 comments

Budget tax breaks for ‘affluent’ Tory areas will take funds from poor, Labour warns

223 comments

Labour group tells Keir Starmer to end Brexit silence by backing new deals with EU

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Editorials

Editorial The government is throwing away a vital electoral asset

Editorial The Labour Party has a chance, finally, to speak for the nation

Editorial Liz Truss is pressing ahead with a raft of vote-losing policies

News analysis

Anna Isaac With this mini-Budget the government has made an almighty gamble

How allies helped secure release of Britons captured in Ukraine

Backed into a corner, Putin is lashing out with huge repercussions

Kim Sengupta Backed into a corner, Putin is lashing out with huge repercussions

Travel

Travelling into 2023: Top tips for planning your next trip

Claire Dodd How to do Trinidad Carnival like a local

John Rentoul

The Independent’s chief political commentator

Editor’s letters

John Rentoul When Nigel Lawson cut the top rate of income tax

John Rentoul Tory Corbynism is likely to be as successful as the Labour version

John Rentoul The Tories know they may have just lost the next election

Andrew Grice

Political columnist who keeps his ear to the ground inside Westminster

Andrew Grice Liz Truss should prepare to be unpopular – at home and abroad

Andrew Grice Will Charles intervene in politics the way he did before he was King?

Andrew Grice If Starmer is clever, he will listen to Gordon Brown

Chris Blackhurst

Chris Blackhurst We have to do something about anonymous trolling, even if Truss won’t

Chris Blackhurst What will Liz Truss’s government be like? We’re starting to find out

Chris Blackhurst Fraud can’t be stamped out if no one takes it seriously

World

Rory Sullivan A long winter ahead: Europe’s energy crisis is about to get very real

Maryam Zakir-Hussain ‘All eyes on Rome’: Italy goes to polls as anxious Europe watches on

Culture

Geoffrey Macnab Hacks on screen: An exalted calling or hard-drinking sleazeballs?

Mark Hudson William Kentridge at Royal Academy is overstretched and hard to follow

Mark Hudson Bruce Nauman: An exhilarating look at a supremely elusive artist

Sport

Jamie Braidwood ‘It’s going to be special’: Federer retirement brings rivals together

Sarah Rendell ‘Absolutely dreadful’: England’s World Cup kits leave fans divided

Mary Dejevsky

Expert on foreign affairs, Russian politics and diplomatic relations between the Kremlin and the west

Mary Dejevsky The King needs the people at least as much as they need him

Mary Dejevsky Vladimir Putin should have been invited to the Queen’s funeral

Mary Dejevsky Future of the monarchy: Is King Charles set to be the great reformer?

Hamish McRae

Authority on business, finance and the intersection between the worlds of economics and politics

Hamish McRae My biggest fear about the government’s borrowing plans

Hamish McRae Risky, ideological: This is more important than any Budget in decades

The path to growth under Truss is far from certain

Editor’s letters

Editor’s letters

Harriet Williamson Can Trussonomics work for Britain? Voices has the answers

Editor’s letters

Charlotte Cripps Holly and Phil and ‘Queuegate’ is one thing – nonsense

Editor’s letters

Andrew Woodcock No government ever gets a ‘clear run’ – to expect this is delusional

Clémence Michallon New Yorkers know what it’s like to have the UNGA in town

America

Politics explained

Chris Stevenson Ron DeSantis is happy to keep powering his outrage machine

Politics explained

Chris Stevenson Ted Cruz has said the quiet part out loud over the 2024 election

Arpan Rai ‘Desperate’ Putin could buy ‘millions’ of North Korean arms, says US