Time over for banker remorse? Labour must beware relying on the City for economic growth

Financial crisis of 2008 should not be forgotten as reinflation of banking industry could hurt other priority sectors

Reeves should consider ending pension triple lock and charging for NHS treatment, says IMF

Chancellor is advised to give herself more leeway in the next budget before adjusting taxation or spending

Lloyds boss warns Reeves against hiking taxes on banks as profits rise 17%

Charlie Nunn says higher taxation would be inconsistent with chancellor’s drive for growth

‘People said it would never be done’: UK and India trade agreement defies expectations

For Britain, this is a much-needed post-Brexit boost, and for India it shows decades of protectionism are in the past

Help wanted: Reeves seeks heavyweight economic advisers as budget looms

Chancellor under pressure to recruit new experts as John Van Reenen and Anna Valero return to academia

‘Less reorganising, more doing’: landmark report alone won’t fix broken water sector

Experts say commission’s recommendations will come to nothing unless water firms actually start building vital infrastructure

Ofwat to be abolished in ‘reset’ of water industry regulation

Environment secretary backs plan to end sewage spills and financial mismanagement in England and Wales

The quiet, matter-of-fact takeover of women holding senior economist roles

From Rachel Reeves to the MPC, and thinktanks to unions and lobby groups, many of the authoritative voices we hear discussing economics are female

Can Trump fire Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell?

The US president and the man he appointed to head the central bank are at loggerheads over interest rates

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town

A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla

UK unemployment rises and wage growth slows as jobs market ‘weakens’

ONS data shows jobless rate climbing to highest rate since June 2021 with growth in average earnings slowing to 5%

Rise in unemployment shows UK jobs market is cooling, but it is not collapsing

Despite latest poor data wage growth remains resilient, and there are ‘signs of confidence returning’

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian view on Reeves’s trickle-down economics: deregulation dressed as economic renewal

Editorial: The ‘Leeds reforms’ revive a finance-first growth model – repackaging a failed economics as strategy, while sidelining real investment and wages

Rachel Reeves warned by City grandees not to weaken banking safeguards

Chancellor’s plan to slash red tape could raise financial risks and do little to help households, say architects of UK’s post-2008 reforms