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Labour’s economic strategy is outdated.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

Heathrow fire: transport secretary says she’d ‘struggle to sleep’ after report airport boss went to bed amid crisis

Heidi Alexander declines to say she has confidence in Thomas Woldbye after airport chaos at the weekend

UK private sector growth rises to six-month high in boost for Rachel Reeves

Services companies say order books increased for first time this year as they hope to avoid Trump tariffs

Visual analysis: How the markets boxed in Rachel Reeves

The chancellor lacks room to manoeuvre before her spring statement thanks to the cost of debt interest payments

Ministers may siphon off stalled £950m fund for motorway chargers

Talks to take place with operators about the scheme, announced in 2020, which has failed to make any grants

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

Labour must involve whole country if it wants to achieve its goals, report warns

Age of ‘command and control’ is over, says Demos, with work needed from business, charities, unions and public

What are Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and could they be changed?

What are the economic constraints that underpin the chancellor’s spring statement – and why does she see them as vital?

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

After America: can Europe learn to go it alone without the US?

In Germany, tariff-hit car factories are being repurposed for defence. In Britain, American academics are queueing up for jobs. The west will be different as a result of Trump – but will it be worse?

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

Manchester’s Bee Network introduces tap-in travel on buses as well as trams

Andy Burnham hails ‘truly integrated, London-style’ system with fares calculated and capped automatically