Last year Labour love-bombed business with a ‘Davos on the Mersey’ conference. This year bosses are disappointed, to say the least: ‘We are being run by student union politicians’ My feature: ‘A serious disappointment’: Labour’s challenge to rebuild City ties: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reeves urged to take 2p off employee NI and add it to income tax in budget www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Exc: Labour must rethink its “arid” growth strategy to curb rise of far right, says Andy Haldane The ex-BoE chief economist said populism was being fuelled by failure to raise living standards: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK inflation holds steady at 3.8% as fuel prices offset falling air fares www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK labour market cools as pay growth slows and job losses rise www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England urged to slow bond-selling plan to help cut record UK borrowing costs. Four ex-MPC members tell the Guardian that the BoE should scale back QT this Thursday amid febrile bond market conditions. Doing so could have a benefit for Rachel Reeves www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Labour urged to create ‘national occupational health service’ - www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Stagnant GDP shows scale of challenge for Rachel Reeves at autumn budget. My analysis on today’s snapshot: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'What the hell are Labour doing?': Starmer’s reshuffle and march of Nigel Farage's Reform dominate discussions at TUC Congress My report back from this year's annual union gathering in Brighton: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

CBI boss calls for Rachel Reeves to tear up Labour’s manifesto pledge on tax - www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Labour must do more to tackle populist right as party’s support leaks to Reform, say unions www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

TUC chief Paul Nowak pulls no punches in his Congress speech on Robert Jenrick: "No amount of Tik Toks or Ozempic or expensive haircuts will ever hide the inner ugliness of Robert Jenrick" Says he is a "xenophobe" whose rhetoric fuels environment for far-right thugs and hotel protests

Labour need to avoid taxing workers to fill the gap in the public finances and start drawing up plans for a wealth tax. If this keeps happening, the feeling that workers always pay, but they’re leaving the super-rich totally untouched – I think they won’t recover from it. 👇

Exc: Unite’s Sharon Graham: ‘Labour has one year to get it right. Farage is on their tail’ Unite boss warns Labour could leave voters feeling ‘duped’ after watering down its workers’ rights reforms www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fags, booze, hunting and crypto - it’s an eclectic mix at Reform… I am in Birmingham today to report back: ‘They’re toxic but popular’: businesses wary as they head to Reform’s party conference www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget will take place on 26 November www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Crackdown on international students could hurt struggling UK cities, thinktank warns www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘Just hysteria’: UK faces a crisis but the IMF bailout talk is overblown “You can quote me as saying that is complete nonsense…,” says a former Bank of England policymaker on the prospect of a UK IMF bailout. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

With tax speculation festering, Rachel Reeves needs to show her hand. My column in today’s @theguardian.com on the fog of uncertainty shrouding the UK’s current economic data, the mess of the ONS, and how it’s making budget speculation worse… www.theguardian.com/business/202...

New: Fears grow over impact of ONS data reliability on Rachel Reeves’s budget (scoop w/ @annaisaac.bsky.social) Deep troubles at the statistics body mean staff at the Treasury and the OBR are struggling to get a clear picture of the economy - our story: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New: Liz Kendall tells me Labour will extend its youth 'trailblazer' job and training scheme by a year with additional funding of £45m - ‘Mountain to climb’: how Labour is facing a crisis in youth unemployment - as number of Neet young adults hits almost 1m: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We are proud of what GM has achieved in the first decade of devolution.👇🏻 But we’ve had to fight for it and every scrap of investment. Imagine what more the North could be if backed with the same investment in infrastructure as others parts of the UK! 🤔

Want more productivity, Rachel Reeves? It’s time to embrace Mancunian swagger | Richard Partington

Want more productivity, Rachel Reeves? It’s time to embrace Mancunian swagger My column for tomorrow’s (Manchester) Guardian - on the city’s economic revival, and why it should inspire the chancellor’s autumn budget productivity plan www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Read @andyburnham.bsky.social & Lord Jim O’Neill on Manchester - the productivity growth capital of Britain by @rjpartington.bsky.social

Exc: Boosting productivity will be main priority of my autumn budget, Reeves says The chancellor has set out her autumn budget priorities for the first time, writing exclusively for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rising job losses and cooling wage growth pose a challenge for Rachel Reeves www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The UK labour market is cooling but this is a slowdown, not a collapse www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Labour should beware Nigel Farage weaponising its part in the cost of living crisis My column in today’s @theguardian.com on how the Bank of England blamed food price inflation on two things: government, and the climate emergency www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England cuts rates but warns accelerating food prices are set to drive inflation to 4% this year www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Bank of England poised to cut interest rates despite a growing divide between its policymakers on the economy: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Time over for banker remorse? Labour must beware relying on the City for economic growth Amid the Labour City vibe shift, I was reminded of ex-Barclays CEO Bob Diamond's infamous comment back in 2011. How time moves on: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Zero-hours contracts: peers accused of ‘trying to block stronger UK workers’ rights’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Excl - Rachel Reeves's chief economic adviser John Van Reenen is scaling back his role to one day a week, and another adviser, Anna Valero, is also off - leaving her light on expertise in the run-up to a crucial budget: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exc: Rachel Reeves to replace top economic adviser ahead of crunch budget - scoop from @guardianheather.bsky.social and I www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

BoE governor warns Reeves weakening banking rules risks repeat of 2008 crisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK borrowing rises more than expected, putting pressure on Rachel Reeves www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Anaemic economic growth, rising inflation, and a worsening outlook in the jobs market: If the Tory inheritance was bad, the situation a year in for Labour does not look much better (But it’s not catastrophic either…) Our analysis on the latest UK data - www.theguardian.com/business/202...

New: Rachel Reeves warned by City grandees not to weaken banking safeguards www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Number of UK job hunters rises at fastest rate since Covid pandemic www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Could AI be accelerating slowdown in the UK job market? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK economy shrinks unexpectedly by 0.1% in blow to Rachel Reeves https:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/11/uk-economy-rachel-reeves-gdp-taxes-trump-tariffs//www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/11/uk-economy-rachel-reeves-gdp-taxes-trump-tariffs

In today’s Guardian: the first in a series on how Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are targeting de-industrialised Britain. We plot the economic and social legacy of industrial decline and austerity in seats Reform was 2nd to Labour, in a mounting political battle: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Does Labour’s spending review signal a return to austerity? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Poorest to benefit from Reeves’s spending but tax rises likely, says thinktank www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK unemployment rises to highest level in nearly four years www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Exc: Nigel Farage is the closest Britain has to a “tribune for the working class”, the former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane has said in a stark warning for Keir Starmer’s Labour party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fiscal recklessness aside, it’s the super-rich who’ll benefit from Reform UK policies - not the working-class communities Farage claims to champion My comment on Reform’s economic agenda for tomorrow’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer to say Reform’s spending plans would cause a Truss-style meltdown www.theguardian.com/politics/202...