Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock ‘hyperscale’ unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity

Late-November budget may affect Christmas shopping, says Aldi boss

Discount supermarket’s UK boss says potential budget measures may weigh on consumer spending decisions

UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain

Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks

Apprenticeships have collapsed in England – Labour needs to fine-tune the solution, fast

Responsibility for vocational training and skills has bounced around Whitehall for years, and enrolment rates are down by a third. Can the latest tweaks work?

Barclays boss urges UK ministers to limit public sector pay rises

TUC says CS Venkatakrishnan has ‘brass neck’ calling for curbs when his pay packet has doubled to £10.5m

UK economy flatlines in July in grim news for Rachel Reeves

Official GDP figures confirm widely expected slowdown after strong expansion in first half of the year

Stagnant GDP shows scale of challenge for Rachel Reeves at autumn budget

Chancellor calls economy ‘stuck, not broken’ but there are signs her policies have added to the UK’s economic headwinds

Business rates rise would put hundreds of big shops at risk, say UK retailers

Concern for ‘anchor tenants’ as trade body warns that stores could put up prices or cut jobs to protect profits

Let France be a warning, Rachel Reeves: stand up to the bond market vigilantes, or they’ll come for Britain next

Labour can stick with ‘you can’t buck the markets’ – or challenge the economic orthodoxy that has served narrow class interests for 50 years, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Starmer tightens grip on economic policy by strengthening autumn ‘budget board’

Key figures from No 10 and No 11 appointed to group include Torsten Bell, new economic adviser Minouche Shafik and comms chief Tim Allan

CBI boss calls for Reeves to tear up Labour’s pledge not to raise tax

Rain Newton-Smith tells chancellor ‘the time for tinkering is over’ and revisit promise not to raise taxes on working people

I’m not running for Labour deputy leader. I want the freedom to fight for an economic reset

The failed status quo and the OBR are holding us back from investing in ways that will transform the UK for the better, says Labour MP Louise Haigh

UK politics: Creasy leaves open chance of Labour deputy leadership bid and calls for Palestine Action law change – as it happened

The MP said police should be focusing on people who are members of the group, not those who ‘recklessly express support’ for it

Unite’s Sharon Graham: ‘Labour has one year to get it right. Farage is on their tail’

As workers feel the pressure and more people tune in to Reform, Starmer risks losing union members’ support, Graham says

Reeves’s £50bn problem solved: stop splashing it in pension tax relief

Older people would save anyway if state support was more limited, and overhaul of council tax would net billions more