Britain
Explore our coverage of Britain’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
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What Britain’s Labour Party thinks of Europe
Rachel Reeves is heir to a long Labour history of ambivalence towards the EU
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How will Britons vote in the next election?
Just two-thirds of Tory voters at the last election say they would make the same choice again
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Britain’s cost-of-living squeeze will leave an enduring mark
Britons are going to the discounters more and going out less. Those habits may stick
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How British voters remove misbehaving MPs
Peter Bone is the latest politician to succumb to a recall petition
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The parable of Andy Street, the mayor for the West Midlands
Britain’s second-tier cities are too constrained from above and below
Editor’s Picks
America’s partisan press and the new abnormal of Britain’s Conservatives
A selection of four essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
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Cheer up, Sir Keir! It might never happen
Labour is too pessimistic about the backdrop it is set to inherit
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How to kill a goose quickly
Britons love to buy cookery books for Christmas. But they barely use them
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London’s riotous pedicabs are about to be regulated
The streets of Soho may become less raucous
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Wes Streeting, a Labour frontbencher, visits Singapore
The shadow health secretary seeks inspiration abroad
Briefing
Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?
It has been bouncing back for 2,000 years and counting
Leaders
London’s resilience is a lesson to policymakers everywhere
The virtues of services, scale and immigration are on full display
Finance and economics
The mystery of Britain’s dirt-cheap stockmarket
It might be old and unfashionable, but investors are ignoring surprisingly juicy yields
