Keir Starmer vows to wean business off ‘cheap labour’
Labour leader to tell CBI conference that UK’s low-pay economy and reliance on immigration must end
Immigration is still the nettle preventing Tory detente with business
Rishi Sunak’s visit to CBI conference found old allies keen to mend fences, but impeded by hard politics of immigration
What on earth is going on with the massive Bulb bailout?
£4.6bn is an eye-watering amount for consumers to stump up – transparency from the government is long overdue
Cop27 failed on keeping global heating to just 1.5C, Ed Miliband says – as it happened
Shadow secretary for climate change and net zero accuses global leaders of ‘fiddling while the world burns’
UK will not ease immigration barriers to plug skills shortages, says minister
Robert Jenrick says businesses should hire local people despite CBI calling for more overseas workers to boost growth
They said we would ‘build back better’ after Covid. What breathtaking deceit
Instead of rewarding us for our suffering, Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak are offering nothing but more hardship, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Thatcher and Lawson had a strategy – where is Hunt and Sunak’s?
UK’s crisis has similarities to that of 1980s but our ‘two chancellors’ plan only to muddle through
Not every poor person is on benefits, so where’s their lump sum for energy bills?
Those earning as little as a £1 too much will miss out on Jeremy Hunt’s £900 to ease the pain after the price cap is lifted
Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession
Rich kids of Insta use strong dollar to fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci
The Observer view on Britain’s financial crisis being made in Russia – oh, come off it, Jeremy Hunt
Britain is largely in the mess it’s in because of a decade of Tory austerity policies, compounded by the destructive lies told about Brexit
A stark lesson for Keir Starmer from the budget: the Tories won’t just lose, you have to beat them
Labour’s path to victory was clear when Truss was in office. A politically cunning autumn statement has made it harder, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
The Guardian view on tax rises: a necessary change
Editorial: No one likes having to pay more, but hard times and Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement have put the issue at the centre of politics
Jeremy Hunt faces rebellion on Tory right over autumn statement
Esther McVey, John Redwood and Richard Drax among backbench critics of chancellor’s tax rises
How the autumn statement brought back the ‘squeezed middle’
Respected thinktanks say Jeremy Hunt’s policies will shock Middle England, with higher taxes here to stay
The British people ‘just got a lot poorer’, says IFS thinktank
UK has scored ‘a series of economic own goals’, Institute for Fiscal Studies says after autumn statement