What are employer national insurance contributions and what would raising them do?
Rachel Reeves has hinted she plans to put up the tax in the budget but some businesses have voiced concerns
Wars, debt, climate crisis and Covid have halted anti-poverty fight – World Bank
Setbacks mean UN goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is impossible to hit, report finds
Pay growth in Great Britain falls below 5%, making interest rate cut more likely
Gap between wages and inflation narrows in August, as UK unemployment rate dips to 4%
Cooling labour market adds to Reeves’s tax-raising dilemma
Hints at plans to increase employers’ national insurance contributions comes as demand for labour slows
Tuesday briefing: How Keir Starmer pitched his vision of Britain to big business
In today’s newsletter: At a summit in London on Monday, the prime minister tried to stir investment in Britain – here’s how it went
Elton John and Michelin meals: Labour pulls out all the stops to woo investors
‘You are pivotal to this great cause of our times,’ Keir Starmer tells global bosses in London as he targets wealth creation
Reeves hints at rise in employer national insurance, as critics claim it breaches manifesto
Chancellor says businesses will understand balancing the books is necessary for fiscal stability
UK’s new industrial strategy shows welcome signs of pragmatism. But the watchdog must have teeth
Rachel Reeves’s green paper seems to take policy more seriously than Tory predecessors
Ministers will have to comply with tougher rules on declaring gifts, MPs told – as it happened
Cabinet Office minister Ellie Reeves says Labour is closing ‘Tory freebies loophole’ over declaring hospitality
Over £60bn of pledges announced at UK’s investment summit – as it happened
Chancellor says £60bn of investment has been announced at summit, showing confidence in UK economy
Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth
British-born Simon Johnson and James A Robinson and Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu share £810,000 prize
Shares in UK gambling firms fall £2bn amid talk of higher taxes in budget
Thinktank reports saying sector should be hit with extra £900m to £3bn in levies prompt market selloff
Who will attend the UK investment summit and what is on the agenda?
Guests at all-day event include the NHS boss, execs from Google, BlackRock and Aviva – and Gareth Southgate
Starmer walks fine line between needs of big business and those of working people
There is discomfort in Labour’s ranks over way forward as PM prepares to welcome powerful financiers to London investment summit
Labour’s new green rules for big companies face resistance in the City
Business lobby groups fear the impact of the government’s environmental standards on efforts to revive the London Stock Exchange