The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state

Despite their campaign victories, the Conservatives have made surprisingly few converts to their biggest idea. Now they have nothing left to say, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

UK workers will be worse off in 2024 than in 2019, thinktank warns

Resolution Foundation predicts average Britons will be 4% poorer but better-off pensioners will be ‘big winners’

Mountain view: Bank top economist offers two routes to beating inflation

Huw Pill says he prefers longer, more steady use of interest rates of Table Mountain model over sharp rise and fall of Matterhorn approach

The Tories let the City run out of control. Now Labour plans to repeat their mistakes

Deregulation and financialisation cause environmental, economic and social harms – but the party aims to give finance even more power, says Mick McAteer, co-director of The Financial Inclusion Centre

Why I joined 70 economists and human rights experts urging Labour to change course

Labour seems spellbound by the Tories’ economically illiterate cult of austerity – but there is another way to help Britain thrive, says Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level

UK faces stark choice of higher taxes or decline in public services, warns IFS

Even if taxes rises are chosen, system needs root-and-branch reforms as all main levies are flawed, finds study

The Guardian view on Tory MPs and tax cuts: the desperate demanding the delusional

Editorial: The Conservative fixation on shrinking the state is fiscally reckless and detached from political reality

Dorries claims she is ‘working daily’ on behalf of her constituents amid calls for her to resign – as it happened

She made the comment in response to repeated claims she is neglecting her duty as an MP

Back from California and Rish! is already drained. Bring on the election

Tired of looking happy and as if he actually cares, the prime minister is ready to be a free man once more

UK factory output tumbles to lowest level in nearly three years

CBI data showing slowdown in activity is latest sign Bank interest rate rises are slowing economy

Keir Starmer: I wouldn’t be able to go to university today

Labour leader says sluggish economy has driven up prices and is holding back students and apprentices

Jeremy Hunt plays down tax cut plans despite lower borrowing than expected

Chancellor says government must not alter course as interest rate rises add to cost of debt

The government’s ‘Treasury brain’ has got the UK in an economic mess. How can we cure it?

Despite all the evidence that privatisation has been a disaster and investment is needed, the department remains in thrall to discredited financial orthodoxy, says Fran Boait of campaign group Positive Money

Non-EU UK immigrants: have you recently been granted a work visa?

We’d like to hear from non-EU immigrants to the UK – particularly from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and India – who have been granted UK work visas in the past year

Last decade saw Australia’s lowest productivity growth in 60 years, intergenerational report says

Labor to lay out new economic growth plans in response including focus on digital technologies and aiming to become a ‘renewable energy super power’