UK labour market can’t hold out much longer against impact of stagflation

The fact that unemployment has started to rise suggests more painful days lie ahead

The price Britain paid for lockdown was colossal. Was there an alternative?

Flirtation with recession, along with new era of austerity and stagnation are consequences of policy response to pandemic

NHS consultants run private firms charging to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals

Calls for a ban as health trusts award ‘insourcing’ contracts worth millions to tackle backlogs

Truss allies’ calls for sweeping tax cuts fuel further Tory infighting

Some MPs accuse former prime minister of damaging party with her comeback weeks before budget

How legitimate are the claims in Liz Truss’s 4,000-word Telegraph essay?

The Guardian’s deputy political editor and economics correspondent take a look

What can Starmer learn from Biden? Now is not the time for timidity

Labour’s bowing to business contrasts with the boldness of the US president’s green industrial policies. There is an opportunity to be grasped, says Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now

Treasury reins in levelling up spending amid Gove’s plan for more grants

Michael Gove’s department banned from spending money on new capital projects without Treasury approval

After Brexit, Britain’s competitors are running rings around us. Sunak’s not even at the races

This reshuffle will make little difference: we’re going nowhere as the PM leads us further down an economic dead end, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s NHS plans: ramping up private medicine

Editorial: The Tories have not reversed pro-market reforms in healthcare but energised them

Liz Truss admits cutting 45p tax rate was ‘perhaps a bridge too far’

Former PM insists, however, that it is unfair to blame actions she took in office for rising mortgage rates

The ‘leftwing economic establishment’ did not bring Liz Truss down. Reality did

The former PM’s confidence in her ‘small state’ formula remains undented. And her flailing party is all-too ready to share in the delusion, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Britain was sick before Brexit. Until the left accepts that, the likes of Liz Truss won’t give up

Brexit was the wrong answer to a perfectly valid question. In order to win now, Keir Starmer must steer clear of the status quo, says Guardian columnist

Truss tax cuts were ‘not right approach’ before tackling inflation, says Shapps

Business secretary responds to former prime minister’s article about her decisions in No 10

Boring can be good. How modest Clement Attlee’s unflashy ideas changed Britain

Attlee was a gifted manager, who showed it possible for modest politicians to be successful if they have decent ideas

Debt, bad; work, good: ‘pub bore’ beliefs that seal a miserable fate for the poorest

Politicians and the media often present policies as moral duties, when they are nothing of the sort