Rishi Sunak urged to cut business rates to unlock billions in investment

Employers’ groups warn ahead of budget that failure to take action would hit UK’s economic ambitions

The Guardian view on austerity: get ready for its return

Editorial: Rishi Sunak plans painful cuts to local councils, further education and prisons. It’s bad economics, and even worse politics

The UK government can’t stop inflation rising – but it can act to ease the pain

Helping low earners is a priority now. And that means reversing the cut to universal credit, says Carsten Jung of the IPPR

Labour, take note: Boris Johnson is redefining modern Conservatism

To the dismay of many in his party, he is reviving a pre-Thatcherite Toryism that could soon dominate English politics, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

Britain is learning the hard way that migration can’t be turned on or off like a tap

The Tories assumed that people from less wealthy countries were desperate to come to the UK for work – that wasn’t the case, says author Daniel Trilling

Tory MPs urge Rishi Sunak to cut high street business rates

Jake Berry, chair of the Northern Research Group, points to new research that suggests the public support tax cuts

No 10 backs Kwasi Kwarteng as split with Treasury emerges in energy row

PM’s spokesperson says Treasury and BEIS officials looking at ways to help manufacturers

Sunak v Kwarteng row lays bare tensions at top of UK government

Analysis: business secretary hinting at need to help firms has irked a chancellor keen to cut spending

Analysis: six squeezes on the UK economy from bills to shopping to petrol

Britain is short of 100,000 lorry drivers, energy firms are sinking, food items are running scarce and employers are scrambling for staff as multiple crises erupt

Businesses saw right through Johnson’s bombast, but will Sunak?

The PM’s Thatcherite conference speech ignored many realities that will have to be addressed in this month’s budget

When others stay silent about the ills of British capitalism, liars like Johnson rush in

For 30 years, politicians have ducked hard questions about our economy. Now the Tories promise to magic the problems away, says political economist William Davies

A resentful UK plc hits back at Boris Johnson’s conference business-bashing

Analysis: from retailers to farmers, employers have not taken kindly to being told to stop whingeing about the supply crisis

Boris Johnson’s ‘high wage’ agenda is taking the wind out of Labour’s sails

The PM thinks his interventionist approach to the economy is a winning formula. Without a coherent opposition, he could be right, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s Tory conference speech gets frosty reception

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’

The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s speech: no joke when there’s no plan

Editorial: The prime minister’s address went long on gags but short on how to deal with the crises confronting the country