Digital pound should not be considered until risks addressed, MPs warn

Treasury select committee highlights concerns over data privacy and increased possibility of bank runs

UK economy shows signs of steadying amid pause in interest rate rises

Modest fall in mortgage costs and rising manufacturer confidence fuel hopes that pressure is easing on consumers and companies

Rachel Reeves: Alistair Darling warned me not to fall into ‘Tory traps’

Shadow chancellor reveals Darling helped shape Labour party’s current policies before his death this week

Gordon Brown: any Labour briefings against Alistair Darling were unfair

Former PM pays tribute to his then chancellor, who has died aged 70, but acknowledges complex relationship

How underrated chancellor Alistair Darling helped weather financial crisis

Labour politician, who has died aged 70, faced toughest challenge of his career when economy crashed in 2008

Jeremy Hunt’s debt reduction plan ‘a very big fiscal risk’, says OBR

Treasury’s independent forecaster says uncertain spending plans and higher than expected inflation could scupper cuts

Lloyds chief urges UK policymakers to keep their hands off banks’ profits

CEO Charlie Nunn calls for measures such a windfall tax to be ruled out before next general election

Andy Burnham claims government note shows Covid tier 3 restrictions imposed on Manchester as ‘punishment beating’ – as it happened

Covid tier system introduced in October 2020 and imposed different restrictions on English regions in effort to contain spread of virus

UK will not return to Cameron era’s close ties with China, Sunak says

At summit to drum up foreign investment PM says he does not intend to change policy towards Beijing

UK spends more financing inequality in favour of rich than rest of Europe, report finds

Inequalities of income, wealth and power cost UK £106.2bn a year compared with average developed OECD country

Powerful Lords committee damns Bank of England over inflation forecasts

Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence

UK economy is addicted to immigration but there is long-term treatment

Immigration fuels growth and much-needed workers but there are ways to wean UK plc off its dependency

After years of Tory failure, getting Britain growing again will be Labour’s greatest test

A Starmer government will inherit a nation with miserable productivity, emasculated public services, big debts, high tax levels and acute inequalities

No bounce for the Tories after tax-cutting budget, poll shows

Opinium poll for the Observer reveals the public is unimpressed with Jeremy Hunt’s attempt to woo them by trimming national insurance

‘If James Cleverly thinks Stockton’s a shit-hole, why not do something about it?’

People in the Teesside town say the home secretary should help to rally an area that has endured chronic political neglect rather than badmouth it