Exclusive: chancellor criticised by former Tory international development secretaries for planned use of $27.4bn windfallRishi Sunak is to save billions of pounds by counting as aid financial assistance to poor countries being provided as a result of a…
Energy crisis: Treasury reprimands Kwarteng after help for firms claim
Source close to Rishi Sunak accuses business secretary of ‘making up’ talks with chancellor about supportThe Treasury has issued an extraordinary reprimand to the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, after he suggested he was consulting the chancellor, …
Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson riding the burning pig of crisis
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Don’t be fooled: this Tory party is no friend of the low-paid | Letters
Readers respond to Rishi Sunak’s conference speech, Boris Johnson’s promise of a high-wage economy, and the cut to universal creditWhen Rishi Sunak offers salvation through “better” jobs (Rishi Sunak’s speech offers mood music but little economic meat,…
Tory conference roundup: taxing times and too much talk
Chancellor submits to big spending with shrug, while prime minister is chided for his chatter“I think you should be called Alok Charmer,” said Stanley Johnson as he interviewed the Cop26 president. It was only downhill from there at one of the more biz…
The Tories still need to reconcile their ‘red wall’ and true blue supporters | Salma Shah
Rishi Sunak knows his future depends on bringing together those who want investment, and those who want tax cutsFor all the talk of a smaller scale operation and a reduced number of delegates, there is a surprisingly jolly buzz around the Conservative …
Welcome to the Tory conference: this year staged in the Soviet-Union-on-Thames | Marina Hyde
There’s plenty of talk about the ‘British Renaissance’ – and no mention of little things like empty shelves and fuel shortagesExperience wonder this autumn as we head for Tory conference, where, according to Lord Frost, the “British Renaissance has beg…
Pandora Papers: tax avoidance revelations prompt outraged denials
International reaction to offshore data leak ranges from pledges to clamp down to anger and cries of old newsSee all of our Pandora papers coverageThe Pandora Papers’ revelations prompted an avalanche of international reaction on Monday, ranging from s…
The Guardian view on tax havens: bring them to heel | Editorial
The Pandora papers prove that secrecy jurisdictions and their super-rich clients are still running rings around the rest of usFive years after the Panama papers exposed the vast scale of offshore banking and business services via the activities of the …
The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s speech: levelling down | Editorial
The chancellor’s praise for the economic policies of previous Conservative governments augurs badly for struggling familiesOne of the lessons that leading Brexiters learned from the 2016 referendum was that brazen opportunism can pay off handsomely. A …