Kemi Badenoch casts doubt on growth projections for Asia-Pacific trade deal

Comments threaten to worsen already tense relationship between senior ministers and civil servants

Greedflation: are large firms using crises as cover to push up their profits?

Critics of corporate behaviour over the pandemic and Ukraine war say company profit and loss accounts tell their own story

National Audit Office urges ministers to learn lessons of losses in England resulting from fraud and error

While inflation remains high, traders are now uncertain if Bank of England and US Federal Reserve will hike rates – and how much

Deficit increases despite higher tax receipts and lower interest payments

Resolution Foundation analysis suggests UK lagging behind similar economies such as Germany

Exclusive: George Eustice criticises push to get parents back to work, saying women’s ‘natural nurturing role’ should be valued

We now know what happens when central banks raise rates and reverse QE

Exclusive: David Blanchflower urges rethink after collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and lifeline thrown to Credit Suisse

When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail’

Institute for Fiscal Studies says the point of pensions is to fund retirement, not to bequeath large sums tax free

Jeremy Hunt says the economy is his priority; but it and he are still really in thrall to the ideological blight of Brexit

The chancellor’s spring budget is stymied by arbitrary debt targets

Labour says chancellor had time to draw up more targeted changes rather than including wealthiest savers

Shadow chancellor says pension changes are ‘wrong priority, at the wrong time, for the wrong people’