
Melissa Lawford
@melissalawford
US economics correspondent @Telegraph, based in Washington DC. Please get in touch, [email protected]
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Local governance problems impact heavily many voters’ everyday impressions of the state Find out more from our Economics Reporter Melissa Lawford ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

👶 On Thursday, Meike helped Melissa Lawford pull out numbers surrounding Torridge: one of England's worst childcare deserts. Her on-the-ground reporting worked great with Meike's data. Women's wages are amongst the lowest in the country, Meike found. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

‘Only one British applicant out of 200’: how the UK lost its work ethic Failure to fix the nation’s skills shortage threatens to snuff out the green shoots of growth - Read the full analysis from Melissa Lawford below ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…


What are your thoughts on inheritance tax? Have you ever had to pay it/do you think you ever might? Do you think it might be the least bad option for a tax rise, or the worst one? Please get in touch, [email protected] #journorequest

I'm writing about the future of adult social care. Have you or a relative had to sell your home to pay for later life care, or are you worried that you might need to? Please get in touch, [email protected] #journorequest

Very good article by Melissa Lawford on affordable housing crisis, especially the dire, expensive failure to replace social housing sold under Mrs T’s RTB, & including insights from xbench peer & housing expert Lord Best: web.archive.org/web/2024082513…

The Telegraph is covering Westminster rough sleeping in this in depth article. Thank you Melissa Lawford

I chatted with Melissa Lawford about research I've been doing on possible new town locations. Some headlines: - there's lots of land in sensible locations - lots of this land is in the green belt - but only comprises a fraction of total greenbelt land telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Are you a pensioner and will means-testing winter fuel payments affect you? Please get in touch, [email protected] #journorequest

🇨🇳🇬🇧 The Prime Minister’s pursuit of closer ties with Beijing threatens to isolate the UK from its allies | Melissa Lawford Read more ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…


In The Telegraph with Melissa Lawford we argue why Russia's economy is hooked on war: consumer spending from military payouts, military industry production, etc. Eurasia Center telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

Great piece on US tariffs by Melissa Lawford in The Telegraph. Back and forth on tariffs means markets have given up on pricing them. But that doesn’t mean that tariffs - especially those on China - don’t matter. They’re big and they matter… telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

👶 What does St Margarets in Richmond-upon-Thames tell us about the looming fertility crisis? Some 75pc of babies are born to geriatric mothers - as middle-class mothers push back motherhood due to costs, careers and lifestyle - with Melissa Lawford bit.ly/4206AM3


✍️ 'Trump threatens to blow up Reeves’s Spring Statement days after it’s delivered' | Writes Melissa Lawford telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

🔴 A fire sale in the bond markets has forced the White House to reach for the extinguishers and pause tariffs Read more from Melissa Lawford ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…


🇺🇦New episode of Ukraine: The Latest Francis Dearnley is joined by Jade McGlynn and Melissa Lawford to give their opinions on the latest updates in Ukraine as Europe plans to deploy troops to the country for 5 years 🎧 Listen 👇 telegraph.co.uk/ukrainepodcast


'Trump’s Maga faithful want to get even. They've nothing left to lose': Piece by Melissa Lawford & Meike Eijsberg well worth a read. Images: Chris Jackson The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

How oil-rich Texas became America’s net zero capital Trump’s anti-green agenda has put him on an unlikely collision course with the Maga faithful - Melissa Lawford telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…