‘Washout winter’ spells price rises for UK shoppers with key crops down by a fifth

Analysts say impact on wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape harvests means price rises on beer, bread and biscuits and more food imported

Thames Water collapse could trigger Truss-style borrowing crisis, Whitehall officials fear

Exclusive: Concerns over effect on UK’s finances lead officials to believe utility should be renationalised before general election

Editorial: Gordon Brown challenged Conservative ideas to fix the economy. His successors unfortunately will not

Council budgets look a likely target when the Tory government seeks to balance the books and pay for its promises

Starmer wants to make Tory policy on the economy a central theme of its election campaign … without mentioning Brexit

Sort of: this week will see inspections of some goods. But the hit to businesses and inflation will be inescapable

Analysts say investor confidence is improving, as shares in London post their best week since last September

For first time since August 2021 people expect position to be better in a year, Paul Thwaite adds

Commerce department says gross domestic product growth decelerated to 1.6% at start of year as consumers slowed spending

Increase in cost of crude could drive inflation up and force central banks to keep interest rates high

Green Finance Institute report said further pollution could cut 12% off GDP by 2030s

PM has faced scepticism over costing of his commitment to spend 2.5% of Britain’s GDP on defence by 2030

Editorial: Wealthy nations exploit their position as the world’s bankers to siphon off hundreds of billions from the needy

Economists had tipped CPI growth for the March quarter of 0.8%, and an annual inflation rate of 3.5%

ABF, which also owns Dorset Cereals, says it is not yet planning rises but it may need to import ‘quite a lot’ of grain