Starmer thinks he can win without bold policies. Has he forgotten Harold Wilson’s law of elections?

Supporters need to know Labour has a plan to involve their lives, says former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Tory conference unease grows over Sunak and Hunt’s lack of ambition

MPs express bafflement PM has resolved to do so little since ‘steadying ship’ after Truss’s disastrous tenure

Rishi Sunak accused of presiding over ‘chaos’ as Tory conference braces for news of HS2 Manchester leg cancellation – as it happened

Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, says news would be ‘profoundly depressing’

Time to withhold benefits from those who won’t look for work, says Jeremy Hunt

Cash-strapped chancellor to pledge changes to welfare system in speech at Tory conference on Monday

As Britain’s town hall services crumble, the case for reform is overwhelming

Local government has been steadily squeezed by austerity, inflation and centralisation. Greater devolution is needed

Tory swing voters switch to Labour after Sunak’s green retreat, poll finds

Survey shows nearly 90% of 2019 Conservative voters say green industry is vital to UK’s economic growth

Rishi Sunak shrugs off concerns that U-turns might make UK a ‘laughing stock’

Prime minister says investors are excited about Britain and that he instinctively understands what the public wants

HS2, Raac, potholes: the symptoms of a lack of investment are everywhere

There is no plausible path out of stagnation but to become a higher – and better – spending Britain

Poll spells trouble for Rishi Sunak as voters who ‘lent’ votes look to take them back

Party loses 40% of 2019 voters in south and Midlands according to exclusive Opinium poll for the Observer

UK economy ‘will shrink for two years as eurozone and US grow’

Thinktank chief and former Bank MPC member gloomy about stubborn inflation and labour shortages

Great British slowdown has hamstrung our economy – thinktank

Country needs successful firms to grow and struggling ones to shrink, says Resolution Foundation

UK’s political short-termism is killing hopes of business investment

Without economic stability the country is likely to be left without solid foundations for recovery

‘We lost about £100,000’: one year on, Britons count cost of the mini-budget

People who lost money for care home fees and others facing rocketing mortgage costs after Truss’s gambit share their stories

Bank of England’s interest rate pause raises hopes peak has been reached

Relief for mortgage holders after 14 consecutive rises as UK economy comes under growing pressure

Tell us: how have you been affected by the aftermath of last year’s mini-budget?

A year on from Liz Truss’s government’s mini-budget, we’re interested to hear how the aftermath of the event has affected UK householders in the past 12 months