From idealists to struggling sceptics: how Labour’s majority depends on five progressive voter types – in charts

Analysis reveals groups with sharply contrasting priorities – and who has drifted the most from Labour towards Greens and Reform

UK ‘losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade’ without post-Brexit product deal

IPPR finds failure to align testing standards costing 0.18% of national income and has seen companies abandon exporting to EU

Burnham stands by claim UK is ‘in hock’ to bond markets

PM says his comments last year were deliberately misinterpreted by Keir Starmer and his advisers

Critics of UK government’s economic forecaster are ‘shooting the messenger’, say MPs

Treasury committee rejects calls for fundamental reform of independent watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility

The Guardian view on the Lib Dems: Ed Davey wants Tory voters without losing the left

Editorial: The party leader offers social liberalism and lower taxes, hoping opposition to Reform UK will hold together voters with competing economic interests

UK borrows £18bn in August, putting pressure on Healey before budget

Some economists say it is now ‘inevitable’ that chancellor will need to raise taxes in the budget next month

Ed Davey promises £17bn income tax cut if Lib Dems are elected

Growth created by rejoining EU single market and customs union would fund change, Davey tells the party’s conference

Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto

PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen

Don’t discount Reform because it’s had a bad year. In our angry, fragile democracy, anything can happen

Nigel Farage’s tactics are to play up the anxiety and resentment that people feel. Labour’s job is simple: to offer hope and change, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality

More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’

With Kemi’s new shadow chancellor, the Tories must hope for a bout of public amnesia

Andrew Griffith is keen on clearing red tape. Good job he wasn’t part of a Treasury team that abolished the Office for Tax Simplification

The Bank of England is shaking up its bond sales – why does it matter?

The UK central bank has announced shakeup of its bond sales programme as it unwinds massive balance sheet

Carney says Canada will pursue ‘unique security and economic alliance’ with EU amid US trade spat

Prime minister speaks of strengthening Canada’s economic and political ties to Europe at Canada Investment Summit

John Healey in talks with Canada about UK joining new global defence bank

Exclusive: Britain is understood to have been formally invited to become founding member of multilateral lender

The Guardian view on the Bank of England’s £120bn bill: power without accountability

Editorial: Quantitative tightening has blurred the line between monetary and fiscal policy, leaving ministers accountable for decisions they cannot directly control