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Aditya Chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist and the Guardian's senior economics commentator

September 2024

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the conclusion of the chancellor’s speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool.

    Britain wants spending and a better NHS, not this obsession with growth. That’s why there’s big trouble ahead

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    Two tribes are at war for the Tory leadership. How to choose? Let me help

    Aditya Chakrabortty

August 2024

  • Illustration: Eleanor shakespeare

    If Starmer and Reeves think they have a foolproof strategy – wait until winter comes

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Bill Bragg/The Guardian

    The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party

    Aditya Chakrabortty

July 2024

  • Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

    It was a landslide election but this much is clear: neither Labour nor the Tories stand on solid ground

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    We know Starmer is in No 10, the Tories in disarray but what lies beneath should worry the entire political class, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration

    The panel
    How will Labour change Britain – and what next for the shattered Conservatives? Our panel’s verdict

    Frances Ryan, Aditya Chakrabortty, Katy Balls, Tom Belger and Chris Skidmore
    Our writers weigh in on Labour’s first 100 days, a bruising night for the Tories and the surging smaller parties
  • Keir Starmer and the shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, during a visit to Barnet, north London, in January 2024.

    Euphoria felled by reality and scant ambition – I have seen what could be Labour’s future

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Thatcher’s old heartland is now a microcosm of the nation. Labour ended years of Tory rule there, but it struggles with that legacy and new expectations, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

June 2024

  • A woman holding a copy of Labour's manifesto.

    Drill into the policy, ignore the puffery: this is a Starmer manifesto more than a Labour one

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    The comparator isn’t any other Labour leader – it’s the Tory Edward Heath, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
  • BILL BRAGG PRINT journal front 240605OPINION Nigel Farage, Westminster

    Don’t underestimate Faragism this election. He’s a virus infecting UK politics

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    It’s no wonder Nigel achieves such cut-through when the media panders to him and mainstream politicians say little of note, says Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Faiza Shaheen holding flowers after speaking to supporters

    Today in Focus
    Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party?

    Keir Starmer once promised to lead a ‘broad church’ Labour party. After a week in which Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen have complained about their treatment, does that still hold true? Aletha Adu and Aditya Chakrabortty report

May 2024

  • Michael Gove is not seeking reelection.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: minister defends loss of high-profile Tory MPs after Gove joins exodus – as it happened

  • Illo of Sunak and Starmer same for web

    Both feted and gilded, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are two sides of the same rotten politics

    Aditya Chakrabortty

April 2024

  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • The war memorial in Shildon.

    To understand Britain’s malaise, visit Shildon – the town that refused to die

    Aditya Chakrabortty

March 2024

  • Silhouette of head surrounded by symbols including Hollywood sign

    Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration by Ben Jennings for the Guardian.

    One simple change could restore faith in local democracy. But nobody is talking about it

    Aditya Chakrabortty

February 2024

  • Ben Jennings illustration.

    So this is how the Royal Mail ends: killed by lying politicians, lousy managers and ruthless moneymen

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    The decline of this great institution is a story in microcosm of how so many aspects of British life have been degraded, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

January 2024

  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    The Tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    The ocean-poisoning superyachts of global plutocrats are a symbol of the class that’s really behind Britain’s misfortunes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Rishi Sunak during a press conference

    One year on, is Rishi Sunak fulfilling his five promises to voters?

    Prime minister pledged to halve inflation, grow economy, cut national debt, lower NHS waits and ‘stop the boats’
  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    Heading isolated and paranoid into the night, these are the voters our politicians created

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    So many citizens are angry and cynical, like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle. I wish our leaders would ask themselves why, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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