UK MPs call for extra £30bn to aid green recovery from Covid-19

Cross-party group calls for ‘faster, further, fairer’ action to tackle climate and nature crisis

Tory privatisation is at the heart of the UK’s disastrous coronavirus response

From PPE to care homes, this crisis has exposed the pernicious role of corporate power in public policy, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

UK recession may not be as bad as feared, says Bank of England economist

Andy Haldane says latest data is ‘a shade better’ than forecast but caution remains

Central banks must change course if they are to lead us out of the coronavirus crisis

After 1945, banks worked closely with governments to ensure credit went to the right places. This should be happening now, says academic and economist Josh Ryan-Collins

The new immigration rules are not really about Brexit. They’re about ripping off workers

Covid-19 has shown what so-called low-skilled workers are really worth. But when this law comes in, things will be grim for them, says author Daniel Trilling

Unions and business support Sunak’s ‘last resort’ bail out plans

Unite union says Project Birch, the government’s rescue plan, is ‘finally taking shape’

Extra UK bank holiday in October ‘could boost economy by £500m’

CEBR recalculates one-day shutdown as financial boost after ‘enforced abstinence’ from Covid-19 lockdown

Why the Treasury’s panic over debt, when borrowing costs next to nothing?

Even avid free-marketeers see that only state money can get growth going, but the chancellor is suddenly running scared

UK firms to be asked to pay part of furloughed staff’s wages from August

Employers on scheme will have to start making payments even if they remain closed, report says

We must act now to shield young people from the economic scarring of Covid-19

Recessions blight young people’s prospects for decades. We need New Deal-type policies now to help them

The Covid-19 bill means the Treasury must live with high borrowing

The government has borrowed more in April than expected for the whole year. It can’t be paid back via austerity

We now have the proof: greening the economy doesn’t come at the price of prosperity

After the financial crisis, green investment paid dividends. Coronavirus presents an even greater opportunity, says environment correspondent Fiona Harvey

The worst is over, but recovery for the UK economy will take years

Rise of PMI after April historic low due to coronavirus is good news, but economic activity is still falling

UK economy set for slow rebound from ‘unprecedented slump’

Coronavirus and looming Brexit means recovery ‘measured in years, not months’, says survey

Ministers overruled permanent secretaries 11 times during coronavirus pandemic

Directions making secretaries of state solely accountable were used to force through spending pledges