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
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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
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Briefing
Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?
It has been bouncing back for 2,000 years and counting
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Leaders
London’s resilience is a lesson to policymakers everywhere
The virtues of services, scale and immigration are on full display
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Finance and economics
The mystery of Britain’s dirt-cheap stockmarket
It might be old and unfashionable, but investors are ignoring surprisingly juicy yields
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