No 10 rejects claim Labour misled voters about tax plans in manifesto – as it happened

Labour set out plans to raise taxes by £7.3bn in its manifesto – but Treasury briefing suggests £40bn in tax rises and spending cuts needed

Rachel Reeves tells cabinet UK still faces £100bn black hole over next five years

Chancellor’s words will be interpreted as signal she will not give in to ministers over cuts she imposes in budget

Starmer calls it slashing ‘red tape’. In fact, he’s just capitulating to big business

Labour is promoting the idea of a trade-off between regulation and growth. We know where that ends, says Balanced Economy Project’s Nicholas Shaxson

Keir Starmer twice refuses to rule out rise in employers’ national insurance

PM says it was ‘very clear’ in Labour manifesto that government would not raise taxes on working people

Tuesday briefing: How Keir Starmer pitched his vision of Britain to big business

In today’s newsletter: At a summit in London on Monday, the prime minister tried to stir investment in Britain – here’s how it went

Elton John and Michelin meals: Labour pulls out all the stops to woo investors

‘You are pivotal to this great cause of our times,’ Keir Starmer tells global bosses in London as he targets wealth creation

Starmer tries – and fails – to keep up with the business in-crowd jargon

When CEOs are dangling investment promises worth billions, all other promises get burned – and any ability to speak disappears

The Guardian view on Labour wooing private investors: don’t trade social protections for growth

Editorial: If Labour is committed to championing ‘working people’, the British state must mediate between workers and capital, rejecting corporate dominance

Ministers will have to comply with tougher rules on declaring gifts, MPs told – as it happened

Cabinet Office minister Ellie Reeves says Labour is closing ‘Tory freebies loophole’ over declaring hospitality

Rolling stock firm’s £80m dividend payout fuels calls for UK rail nationalisation

Unions describe Porterbrook’s figures, despite downturn in wider rail industry’s revenues, as ‘shocking but unsurprising’

Elon Musk was not barred from UK investment summit, says cabinet minister

SpaceX owner would be invited in future if he had investment streams the UK could bid for, says Peter Kyle

Who will attend the UK investment summit and what is on the agenda?

Guests at all-day event include the NHS boss, execs from Google, BlackRock and Aviva – and Gareth Southgate

Keir Starmer will promise to slash red tape as he hosts investment summit

Unions express concern as PM to say government will ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’

Rachel Reeves must keep promise to ease business rates burden, say retailers

Plea comes as analysis warns of £2.7bn tax hike mainly affecting smaller retail, leisure and hospitality firms

Starmer walks fine line between needs of big business and those of working people

There is discomfort in Labour’s ranks over way forward as PM prepares to welcome powerful financiers to London investment summit