Lower Thames Crossing plan for Essex and Kent approved by government

Heidi Alexander gives green light to controversial £9bn tunnel, Britain’s biggest single planned road-building project

Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy?

Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Britons cutting back on spending as confidence in economy falls, survey shows

Most feel financially secure but think UK’s economy is worsening, as chancellor plans welfare cuts in spring statement

Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts

Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday

X stands to benefit if UK pulls digital services tax in trade deal with US

Prominent campaigner says Elon Musk’s platform qualifies for the levy, which is on the block in negotiations

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s spending cuts: a choice, not an economic necessity

Editorial: The spring statement casts austerity as unavoidable, but Labour is clinging to economic myths while ignoring the tools of power

Labour’s economic strategy is outdated. I can fix that

The last thing we need from Wednesday’s spring statement are incremental changes to tax and spending. Let’s have a clear plan, says Jagjit Chadha of Cambridge University

Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms

Labour MP and Lib Dem leader express concern social media companies could be let off hook just as benefits are cut

Reeves’s dilemma: break your tax pledges or cast Labour adrift from its principles

After the welfare cuts backlash the chancellor is being warned about how she wields the scalpel in her spring statement

Rachel Reeves to cut 10,000 civil service jobs in effort to lower government costs

UK chancellor ‘not satisfied’ with the current numbers, but promises the economy and living standards will improve

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement

How did it come to this? Labour’s journey from landslide victory to ‘deep unhappiness’

Rachel Reeves’s speech next week is being crafted as a ‘re-education’ on Labour’s achievements amid gloominess and sinking poll ratings

Reeves to raise spectre of Liz Truss to persuade Labour MPs to accept cuts

Chancellor to tell party she is making steep cuts to avoid similar fallout to that which followed 2022 mini-budget

Reeves scapegoating bats to cut red tape is absurd, says Packham

Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’

Borrowing overshoot will test Rachel Reeves’s resolve on tax rises

Chancellor may see data as vindication for spending cuts but some analysts say more radical action will be needed