Starmer offers big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs

Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companies

Kemi Badenoch gives credence to race-swap conspiracy theory about Adolescence but admits she hasn’t watched it – as it happened

Conservative party leader says she believes show ‘is based on real story’, a claim described as wholly untrue by writer and co-creator of series

A sketch writers’ benefit? An April fool? Either way, big thanks to Mel and Kemi

A press conference at Tory HQ at least had some entertainment value even if there was nothing of importance to say

No 10 says it expects UK to be hit by new Trump tariffs as trade deal talks drag on

Downing Street says it ‘reserves right’ to respond to protect national interest when US levies are announced this week

From Lincoln to Nixon, Trump’s not the first US president to shock the UK on trade

Lincoln blockaded southern cotton, McKinley hit Britain with tariffs and Nixon abandoned the gold standard: a quick history of transatlantic economic meddling

Planning changes offer a bright spot for Rachel Reeves – but grey areas exist

OBR’s verdict of a long-term 0.4% boost to GDP from fewer building restrictions will have real political impact but there are gaps in funding

The Observer view on the spring statement: Rachel Reeves balanced the books – but at whose expense?

Here was a successful economic strategy in the making, marred by its abdication of responsibility to some of society’s weakest

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

What is ‘abundance’ liberalism, and why are people arguing about it?

A new book has sparked debate with its provocative claim that progressive public policy in the US is broken

Reeves may have to find further cuts and tax hikes amid economic gloom

Rising costs and global uncertainty may force chancellor to turn to pensioners and wealthier taxpayers

‘Good chance’ Reeves will have to raise taxes in autumn budget, thinktank says – as it happened

Institute for Fiscal Studies also warns Reeves over her focus on sticking with fiscal rules regardless of real world events

The one where everyone piles in on Rachel. Someone get her an espresso

It was a morning from hell for the chancellor. After the spring statement and Trump’s overnight tariffs, time for a kicking

Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts

Backbenchers express anger as impact assessment shows 3.2 million households will be worse off

The Guardian view on Labour’s plan for stability: austerity in disguise

Editorial: Rachel Reeves campaigned on a message of change, but in office offers more of the same. The public are tuning out

Housebuilder Vistry pins hopes on £2bn affordable homes promise as profits fall

Company suspends dividend payouts after shares dip by 8% with profits down by more than a third