Fall in UK inflation to 2.5% paves way for Bank of England rate cut

After week of turbulence in markets, ONS data sends bond yields falling and eases pressure on chancellor

Great Britain’s energy grid operator closes connection queue

Neso says ‘short pause’ will help ease logjam delaying vital green projects, as unfunded ‘zombie projects’ block queue

Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time

The cash to match the prime minister’s ambition will have to come from other budgets long before any benefits are seen, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves: turbulence caused by caution, cuts and criticism

Editorial: The chancellor isn’t going anywhere – but clinging to Treasury orthodoxy threatens Labour’s transformative growth agenda

Stride’s Hamlet gag saves Reeves from slings and arrows of economic fortune

Instead of evaluating chancellor’s performance, her shadow apes rightwing press and calls for her sacking

Could Keir Starmer’s AI dream derail his own green energy promise?

As PM pins hopes on AI, what effect will building energy-hungry datacentres have on Labour’s clean power pledge?

Rachel Reeves blames global volatility for borrowing rates rise amid Tory criticism

Chancellor tells Tory MP to ‘get real’ and that UK bond market changes are similar to those in other countries

UK politics: Starmer says ‘door remains open’ for Tulip Siddiq following her resignation as Treasury minister – as it happened

PM appoints Emma Reynolds as her replacement as Siddiq steps down but implies she could return to government in future

Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better

It’s free, it’s sensible and it makes workers happy. The government needs to accept that this is the new normal, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Surrey councillors ask ministers to ‘write off’ Woking’s £1bn debt

Taxpayers asked to shoulder burden as beleaguered council expected to merge with neighbouring authorities

No 10 backs Rachel Reeves to remain in post for rest of parliament

Keir Starmer offers support to underfire chancellor after bruising start to new year

No 10 says Starmer does expect Reeves to stay as chancellor until general election – UK politics live

Downing Street says prime minster has ‘full confidence’ in chancellor and will be working with her ‘in role of chancellor’ for the whole of this parliament

Water shortage fears as Labour’s first AI growth zone sited close to new reservoir

First datacentre site proposed seven miles from Abingdon reservoir planned for water-stressed south-east England

Keir Starmer says Treasury will be ruthless on public spending cuts

Chancellor’s tough approach to public spending ‘absolutely right’, says PM after cost of government borrowing rose

Reeves back from China with one eye on bonds and the other on economic data

The chancellor will be monitoring the price of gilts after last week’s selloff and data to come on inflation and growth