Tory leadership: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak clash in heated BBC debate – as it happened Latest updates: final two candidates exchange blows over plans for cost of living, levelling up and China
Guardian Essential poll: 40% of voters say Labor doing poor job tackling surging cost of living Half of voters surveyed say they can afford household bills but struggle to find anything extra or report feeling under financial pressure
Two sides of Trussonomics: tax cuts and higher interest rates Select band of economists back Liz Truss’s tax plan, but Rishi Sunak’s team say it could cost homeowners £6,600 a year
Keir Starmer: Labour will fight next election on economic growth Opposition leader to say ‘making the country and its people better off’ is main priority for party
Rebecca Long-Bailey calls for Labour to drop cautious approach to economy Former leadership contender wants manifesto to include state ownership and a living standards contract for citizens
Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Whoever wins faces a bleak economic outlook Inflation and a cost of living crisis mean the new PM will have little time to produce a feelgood factor
Can Labour think big and make levelling up work? Lisa Nandy hopes Labour will seize the chance for a rebalancing that can change the whole of the UK
Rishi Sunak says he is underdog in PM race as ‘forces that be’ want Truss Former chancellor suggests Tory party powers hope leadership contest will be ‘a coronation’ for his rival
We’re living in an age of permanent crisis – let’s stop planning for a ‘return to normal’ Current plans seem foolish when we know that shocks such as global heating aren’t going away, says Progressive Economy Forum director James Meadway
Rishi Sunak vows to press ahead with Channel 4 privatisation Tory leadership candidate’s backing for privatisation clears way for sale of broadcaster next year
Tory leadership race: Rishi Sunak calls himself ‘common sense’ Thatcherite – as it happened Former chancellor says UK ‘needs to control borders’ and again references Margaret Thatcher
Rishi Sunak steps up attack on Truss tax cuts as poll puts his rival well ahead Former chancellor says opponent’s economic policies risk stoking inflation and pushing up interest rates
Liz Truss’s tax and spending plans sow consternation among economists Analysis: experts are lining up to warn that her policies will increase inflation and leave the UK with higher debt
Interest rates: the three central banks facing one tricky balancing act In the fight against inflation the ECB, Bank of England and Federal Reserve risk either doing too much too soon, or too little too late
Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls for windfall profits tax in Australia Tax is a ‘no-brainer’ after companies’ huge profits during Covid but corporate influence makes it ‘politically difficult’, Stiglitz says