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Aditya Chakrabortty

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

February 2025

  • Illustration by Danielle Rhoda

    Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff, a crisis hidden in plain sight

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Her right to buy policy enriched the private sector at taxpayers’ expense. Last year, it sparked another gold rush – and looming calamity for local authorities, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

January 2025

  • Illustration of red aeroplane with logos 'Growth' and 'Labair'

    Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on

    Aditya Chakrabortty

December 2024

  • Illustration by Bill Bragg

    All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    From rightwing rhetoric to a lack of action on the cost of living crisis, Downing Street is only fuelling the rise of Reform, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

November 2024

  • Former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak in Mansfield, 20 November 2024

    Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Composite of Donald Trump and crowd

    Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped – and Trump offered a way out

    Aditya Chakrabortty

October 2024

  • Illustration: Danielle Rhoda/The Guardian

    At last, a government willing to spend – but this budget will expose it to two great dangers

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two at Bishop international airport in Flint, Michigan, 4 October 2024.

    This is the future for Kamala Harris: unless she solves this economic mystery, Trump wins

    Aditya Chakrabortty

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
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    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
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