‘A job is like finding a needle in a haystack’: how Dudley became centre of UK’s youth jobs crisis

Almost one in five school-leavers in West Midlands town are not in education, employment or training and chancellor is under pressure to deliver promised ‘youth guarantee’

Increase taxes for working people, or make the super-rich pay their fair share? The answer seems obvious – but not to Labour

Rachel Reeves has unnecessarily blocked her options of what to include in her budget, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

MPs urge Reeves to raise gambling taxes despite ‘scaremongering’ from firms

Treasury select committee calls for higher duties on most addictive forms, such as high-street slots and online games

Business leaders urge Reeves to force pension funds to raise UK investments

More than 250 bosses ask chancellor to require schemes to put 25% of assets in British firms, which could unlock £95bn

Lucy Powell says Labour must stand by promise not to raise key taxes

New deputy leader also calls on government to lift two-child benefit cap urgently and in full

Bank of England opens door to December rate cut as it signals inflation has peaked

Policymakers keep borrowing costs at 4% before crucial budget while also warning of persistent weak growth

Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates at 4% is not all doom and gloom

Close-run vote raises hopes of rates cut in December, with inflation said to have peaked at 3.8%

Thinktanks urge Rachel Reeves to overhaul ‘broken’ tax system

Coalition says ‘arbitrary and nonsensical’ rules are penalising work and discouraging investment

Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook

The Maga model, based on the US’s exorbitant market privileges, can’t be imported to Britain. That’s going to be a problem for Reform UK, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Reeves refuses to say she will stick to manifesto pledge on tax rises and insists she must face world ‘as it is’ – as it happened

Chancellor says she is focused on priorities for British people in pre-budget speech laying ground for expected tax rises

Pound hits lowest since April as investors anticipate budget tax rises; markets hit by AI valuation jitters – as it happened

Sterling drops against dollar as chancellor’s speech is taken as a sign that taxes will rise in the budget, and interest rates may fall faster

Three weeks till budget day – and now Rachel Reeves is ‘being honest’ about tax

The chancellor is levelling with us about the pain to come. Is there anyone outside Planet Rachel who couldn’t see that truth two years ago, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Reeves aims to prepare voters and markets for possible budget tax rises

Speech attempts to take back narrative with talk of ‘years of economic mismanagement’, Brexit and tariffs

Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out tax rises as autumn budget looms

Chancellor says she needs to respond to challenges in speech intended to frame tough choices UK faces

Reeves to lay groundwork for tax rises in ‘candid’ speech about budget

Chancellor to promise ‘fairness and opportunity’ but will not repeat manifesto pledge on tax, after PM’s hint at breach