Economy

The private equity industry – a wealth-extracting machine – is swallowing up UK businesses and stripping them of their assets while our politicians stand by

The IFS delivers a gloomy verdict that will put pressure on the chancellor for tax rises and spending cuts

If Labour can restore a sense of community, it will reap as much political benefit as any amount of good economic data

Rachel Reeves will have less to spend - but will argue the rise in applications vindicates her strategy

In China, wealth now comes at a cost

As October 30 looms, Reeves must prepare to perform a fiscal juggling act

After centuries of banking tradition, the country that gave birth to banks could be seeing their demise

Claims of ‘proof’ that foreign workers cost Britain more than they put in are nebulous in the extreme

People in the UK are living longer lives – our economic system is not set up to deal with the consequences

UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?

Where is Han Solo when you need him?

A new report suggests the negative effects of leaving the EU are deepening

Starmer’s decision to cut heating benefits for pensioners is woeful politics, and Labour MPs are in despair

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

The same tax rate for earnings and wealth would be a seismic change that raised billions

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has some tough decisions to make in October’s budget, but has options to achieve growth and avoid austerity

The 14 year experiment went on far too long. Now Labour has to make the economy work

Public opinion is changing on the idea of a Universal Basic Income. Could it solve our poverty crisis and improve productivity?

Falling interest rates have nothing to do with Labour’s new chancellor - but she will definitely take them

A payment to all OAPs was unjustified and unsustainable

Rachel Reeves’s cuts come only after the previous government squandered vast sums of money

The chancellor ripped up Tory legacy dreams and made the right call on the Winter Fuel Payment

Rachel Reeves delivered controversial cuts.. and then came 'proof' the Tories misled the nation

The Bank didn’t cut rates during the election – might it do so now?

The reason why Brexiteers are suddenly finding the capital unwelcoming lies closer to home than they think

The end of the “idiot premium” has strengthened the value of sterling

Three weeks in, Starmer has brought Britain closer to the EU, and outraged Brexiteers. What’s not to like?

In the aftermath of events in the US, it’s important not to fall into the same hyperbolic trap that plagued our media in the run-up to other recent elections

Mirroring updated EU product rules will cheer industry and enrage Brexiteers