Furlough effect leaves Rishi Sunak with ‘triple lock’ pensions dilemma

State pensioners will receive 18% increase if chancellor does not scrap manifesto promise

While other countries are recovering from Covid-19, Britain is still in intensive care

The country’s economy and public health will be paying the price of too-little, too-late policymaking, say health science professor Trish Greenhalgh and economist Andrew Sentance

Permanent secretaries ‘not aware of any economic planning for a pandemic’

Two senior civil servants say Whitehall did not devise economic plan after 2016 simulation

Boris Johnson: no reason why Brexit deal cannot be sealed in July

EU agrees to look for early common ground as PM asks it to ‘put a tiger in the tank’ of talks

Fear of coronavirus, not lockdown, is the biggest threat to the UK’s economy

Simply lifting restrictions won’t ease this recession, people need to feel the outbreak is under control, says economist Simon Wren-Lewis

Coronavirus: more than a million left out of income support, say MPs

Treasury select committee flags up gaps in state aid for new starters and freelancers

UK economy to shrink by 8% in 2020, forecasters say

EY Item Club further downgrades UK economic prospects with full recovery unlikely until 2023

UK coronavirus: official death toll rises by 36 in lowest increase since lockdown began – as it happened

News updates: death toll rises to total of 41,698; Boris Johnson says people can ‘shop with confidence’ as retail sector prepares to reopen; easing two-metre rule is decision for ministers not scientists, says Rishi Sunak

The past three months have proved it: the costs of lockdown are too high

Governments know the economic, social, health and educational costs of full Covid-19 lockdowns are too high

After Covid, is it time for the UK to invest in its industry again?

The reopening of shops tomorrow offers hope of recovery. But with new forecasts of the economic challenges after Covid, our writer asks: will we end decades of orthodoxy and follow Europe by investing state funds into our struggling industries?

Incoherence at the heart of government is making a calamitous slump worse

The chancellor is reluctant to help firms hampered by the two-metre rule. Johnson disagrees. And everyone is left floundering

The Guardian view on the global crisis: where is the rescue and recovery plan?

Editorial: The vacuum left by the G20 will leave the world’s poorest nations battered by Covid-19 and with a fraction of the wealth required to revive themselves

‘April was catastrophic’: the firms caught up in the UK’s record slump

Three businesses explain the challenges presented by Covid-19, lockdown and an end to furlough

Calamitous GDP figures show UK economy has fallen off a cliff

It goes without saying that the 20.4% contraction in April is the worst on record

More than a third of employees furloughed in some UK towns

Centre for Cities says coronavirus job retention scheme will cost government £19.6bn