The return of benefit sanctions won’t help the Covid-19 jobs crisis
As mass unemployment looms, the government is reverting to policies that have wrecked lives and worsened low pay and insecurity, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Until Covid-19 uncertainty melts away there’s little chance of full economic recovery
We are entering the critical economic phase of the pandemic: how to get consumers spending again
Rishi Sunak is an unwelcome reminder to Boris Johnson of his political mortality
Prime ministers invariably grow paranoid about any cabinet colleague who is talked up as an heir apparent
Sunak will say things are looking up, but OBR has less faith in a rebound
With bad news on jobs, and ongoing risk from Covid-19, hopes for a V-shaped recovery look misplaced
Rishi Sunak is borrowing his way out of this crisis, but we’ll all have to pay it back
By the autumn budget the chancellor will have to provide some idea of what taxes must rise to meet the nation’s bills
England gets ready to reopen gyms, pools and nail bars as Covid-19 lockdown eases – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news as England’s leisure businesses prepare to re-open
Labour warns UK recovery plan could end up wasting public money
It comes after HMRC chief warned chancellor he could not vouch for ‘efficiency’ of plans
Rishinomics means centralisation like we’ve scarcely seen before
Forget government by local communities in their own interests: in Sunak’s Britain, Whitehall is the master of all it surveys, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Sunak’s jobs policies badly timed and poorly targeted, says IFS
Thinktank predicts budget deficit of £350bn this year and tax rises from 2022
Sunak’s promises mean nothing with a government this incompetent
The issue with the chancellor’s plan isn’t ‘is it enough?’ (it isn’t) but ‘can he do it at all?’ says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Summer statement 2020: IFS airs doubts on ‘unprecedented’ UK economic stimulus
Thinktank fears deficit will go higher, new job retention plan is wasteful, and questions stamp duty and VAT cuts
Mass unemployment feared despite Rishi Sunak’s ‘plan for jobs’
Economic experts, unions and Labour sound warning after summer statement
Tory praise for summer statement comes with concerns over finances
Backbenchers hail chancellor but some publicly fret about his abandonment of fiscal prudence
The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak: right words, right focus, wrong policies
Editorial: the chancellor is handing out cocktail umbrellas as the UK heads into a hurricane
Pubs warn of closure risk after alcohol VAT cut exemption
Firms ‘heartbroken’ as alcohol sales are excluded from tax relief in summer statement