Rachel Reeves urged to break manifesto pledges to avoid ‘pasty tax’ budget

Labour colleagues advise chancellor against string of small money-raising measures, as OBR presents forecast

Wetherspoons boss vows to keep price rises to a minimum as he criticises energy bills

Beefed-up packaging tax will triple pub chain’s costs from the levy to £2.4m a year, says Tim Martin

Rachel Reeves could raise £45bn in taxes and keep promises, report says

Chancellor has ways to cover UK deficit without breaching spirit of Labour manifesto, Morgan Stanley claims

UK and EU poised to strike deal sparing British business from carbon border tax

Exclusive: Temporary deal to shield UK exporters from levy’s impact is now viewed by both sides as likely

Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem

Watchdog’s report highlights growing dangers of slot machines and in-play betting on matches

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act

Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it

The government has raised false hopes at Jaguar Land Rover. There has been no ‘decisive action’

If the government is in the intervention game, it should be intervening where need is most urgent – among JLR’s suppliers

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say

Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak

Selfridges blames slump in tourists shopping for luxury goods as sales fall

Losses narrow to nearly £16m for 48 weeks to 4 January 2025 but group has not made pre-tax profit since 2019

Big pharma is at war with the UK, and the government can’t back down now

The industry has always wanted the NHS to pay more for its drugs; now it is pulling research and investment out of Britain, says director of Global Justice Now Nick Dearden

‘Decency or division’: Britain faces era-defining choice, Keir Starmer warns

Prime minister lambasts Nigel Farage and the politics of Reform in combative Labour conference speech

Rachel Reeves gets a warm reception but business chiefs are wary of another tax raid

Questions grow over how chancellor will raise cash in the autumn budget to meet her fiscal rules

Retailers say tax rises could further fuel inflation as shop prices jump

BRC says households are finding shopping increasingly expensive after annual shop price inflation rises to 1.4%

Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’

In a combative speech, the prime minister will pledge to raise living standards and ‘face down’ threats of a volatile world

Andy Burnham calls for UK to rejoin EU within his lifetime and rejects claim he is fiscally irresponsible – as it happened

Mayor of Greater Manchester says he would have to be ‘wrenched’ out of city and says he wants UK to rejoin EU