UK supermarkets accused of misleading labelling on origins of food products Which? says inconsistencies also found, with ‘meaningless’ labels making it hard for shoppers to make informed choice
Trussonomic lessons: what can be learned from former PM’s book? The anti-growth coalition, Bank of England and the OBR are among those under fire from Liz Truss
Post Office was urged by external lawyers to ‘suppress’ key document, inquiry hears Email was sent suggesting postal company should withhold disclosing investigation guidelines
There should be no rush to replay Hipgnosis’s noisy stock market experiment The sale of the music fund ends its tumultuous years as a listed company – and that may be for the best, for it and its investors
KitKat owner Nestlé fights off push to cut back on unhealthy products Investor proposal to reduce levels of fat, salt and sugar in products is backed by only 11% of shareholders
Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state Exclusive: Under Whitehall blueprint for water company some lenders could lose up to 40% of their money
Coventry Building Society makes £780m offer for Co-operative Bank Tentative offer follows four months of talks and could create new banking group with almost 5m customers
Russia’s war in Ukraine remains barrier to growth, says IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says Kyiv will need $42bn of financial support this year as G7 considers ways to use seized Russian assets
IMF’s Georgieva says border migration is helping US outperform Europe; UK car insurance prices finally falling – as it happened Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Kemi Badenoch: ‘UK’s wealth isn’t from white privilege and colonialism’ Minister told London conference that Glorious Revolution of 1688 paved way for economic certainty
EasyJet cuts winter losses despite cancelled flights due to Israel-Gaza war Airline says demand has rebounded, with strong bookings at its holiday arm
‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk
UK music investor Hipgnosis agrees £1.1bn takeover by Concord Chorus Shares in Beyoncé and Neil Young song fund rise amid hopes uncertainty over its future could be over
Private health insurance market grows by £385m in a year amid NHS crisis Demand for private treatment booms as NHS waiting lists remain long, while more people also sign up for dental cover
I Could Never Go Vegan review – cheerfully persuasive film about the plant-based lifestyle Thomas Pickering blends approachable narration with well-presented information in a welcome reminder of the Michael Moore method