Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Richard Partington

Richard Partington is the Guardian's senior economics correspondent

April 2025

  • The Bank of England with tulips in the City of London financial district

    Good news on UK inflation may be short-lived amid trade war and rising household bills

  • Commuters on London Bridge.

    Number of payrolled workers in UK fell by 78,000 ahead of budget tax rise

  • Rachel Reeves

    UK business confidence falls to lowest level in over two years, survey shows

  • Donald Trump wearing yellow or orange tie is seen indoors behind a wire fence

    Economics viewpoint
    Trump’s bullying must stop but the true costs of globalisation will remain

    Richard Partington
  • US politics live
    Court ruling saying Mahmoud Khalil can be deported condemned as ‘unjust and alarming’ – as it happened

  • Business live
    US stock markets rally as White House says there is ‘great optimism’ in the economy – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer aiming to ‘pass emergency legislation in one day’ to save British Steel – as it happened

  • ‘The damage is done’: Trump’s tariffs put the dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy

  • GDP jump offers Rachel Reeves some light as UK enters Trump tariff tunnel

  • Fact check: are US tariffs really bringing in $2bn a day as Trump claims?

  • How ‘liberation day’ rout compares with other notorious stock market crises

  • Business live
    Donald Trump says he is not looking at pausing tariffs as US markets close after rocky day – as it happened

  • Retaliation or restraint: how should Keir Starmer react to US tariffs?

  • ‘In economic terms, Trump’s tariffs make no sense at all’

  • Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2.5tn off Wall Street

  • ‘There are no winners’: global companies respond to Trump tariffs

  • Today in Focus
    Will Trump’s tariffs ignite a global trade war? Today in Focus Extra – podcast

  • Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists

  • Trump’s tariff war – a timeline of key announcements and events

  • ‘Liberation day’: what are tariffs and why do they matter?

About 2,716 results for Richard Partington
1234...