Watch out, Rachel Reeves: the old guard is ganging up on your borrowing ambitions

The shadow chancellor had plans to increase borrowing to invest in infrastructure and more, but the weight of expert disapproval is wearing her down

UK interest rate cuts cannot come soon enough for economy and Jeremy Hunt

Modest GDP growth in November gives chancellor little to celebrate when three-month figure shows contraction

Broken-rail Britain: my journey to the heart of the nation’s privatisation nightmare

A rail-replacement service turned into a non-existent taxi. Once again, the rich take dividends and the rest of us pay the costs, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

US inflation ticked up to 3.4% in December as policymakers mull rate cuts

Consumer price index exceeds economists’ expectations as Fed weighs when to start cutting borrowing costs

Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’

Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre

Forget talk of Labour’s ‘tax bombshell’. It’s Tory policy that needs a watchful eye

Conservative economic promises such as tax cuts fail to match fiscal reality – the key to progress is investment, not austerity

Sunak says he wants to reduce workers’ taxes this year and may cut benefits

PM sets up possibility of income tax coming down in March and says control of welfare is a priority

Dead letter office? Royal Mail wrestles with a difficult future

In private hands, the postal service has become a graveyard of management ambitions, beset by discontent and decline. Can yet another new boss save it?

Hunt issues tax warning as cut in national insurance takes effect

Chancellor says while reduction to 10% will bring ‘significant relief’ pre-pandemic levels of tax can’t be achieved in one go

‘Everyone cites Covid and Brexit’: number of UK businesses going bust rises 52% in two years

Interest rate rises, inflation and skills and labour shortages all contributed to sharp increase in company insolvencies in 2023

Starmer says Labour will ‘meet fire with fire’ if Tories resort to dirty tactics during election – as it happened

Labour leader says Conservatives will ‘go low’ in election this year and Labour are prepared to match them if they do

The world economy is in crisis again. If we look back 80 years, we might be able to fix it

The historic Bretton Woods summit shaped a golden era of growth. This year’s G20 could be our equivalent, says academic and economist Michael Jacobs

Investment, not austerity and pay cuts – that’s the only way out of the mess Britain is in

The crisis in our governance is the result of bad choices. We need to acknowledge the need for radical government intervention, says Unite general secretary Sharon Graham

Labour should make UK leader in wellbeing-informed policy, says peer

Call by economics of happiness expert Richard Layard comes as research agency set up under David Cameron is to be axed in Whitehall cuts

Tories have plenty of weak spots – and dislike years that end in four

Labour will be going on the attack, mindful of having come to power in 1924, 1964 and 1974