Reeves unveils City strategy aimed at cutting red tape and fuelling UK growth

‘Leeds Reforms’ include streamlined accountability for senior bankers and a campaign to get more consumers investing in stock market

UK politics: Tories’ energy policy shows they are ‘anti-science, anti-jobs, anti-future’ Miliband tells MPs – as it happened

Energy secretary says it is not clear if opposition have any net zero policy

With the UK still shaking off the psychological side-effects of Covid, Rachel Reeves might want to broaden her aims

Labour is being pulled one way by a desire to cut debt and the other by slumping poll ratings. With growth nowhere to be seen, tax rises loom

Exclusive: Announcement expected as part of series of changes outlined in chancellor’s Mansion House speech

Chancellor’s Mansion House speech to cite ‘opportunity’ in attempt to shrug off anaemic economic performance

Chancellor, who had been expected to announce changes next week, faced backlash over move

Depressing data comes as Rachel Reeves and her team were daring to hope business confidence was recovering

Public accounts committee warns UK infrastructure risked becoming ‘stony ground’ for investors without major overhaul

Brazilian president threatened a 50% tariff on US goods in retaliation for Trump’s levy on the Latin American country

Brazilian president says ‘if he charges us 50%, we’ll charge him 50%’ after Trump cited trial of Bolsonaro to justify tariff

A marketing campaign is all very well but if the LSE’s fortunes are to turn, the real oomph needs to come from the chancellor

US president announces tariffs of up to 200% on foreign drugs and 50% on copper as he continues to shift plans

Office for Budget Responsibility warns national debt on course to hit 270% of GDP by 2070 amid volatility

Exclusive: Phones 4u founder, who switched from the Tories, says wealth tax would be very destructive to growth