David Cameron used his speech at the Conservative party conference in Manchester to take aim at Ed Miliband. He said that for his party, profit was not a 'dirty word' and that Labour could not be trusted with the slowly recovering economy.
Joining Tom Clark this week to discuss this are columnists Michael White and Polly Toynbee, as well as our economics editor Larry Elliott.
Also this week: a hatchet job on the late Ralph Miliband by the Daily Mail has sparked a running political row between the paper and the leader of the opposition. Ed Miliband demanded an apology from the Mail which claimed - and then re-stated - that his father, a prominent Marxist scholar, 'hated Britain'.
Plus: what happens when a government shuts down? The United States has been finding out this week as budgetary brinkmanship in Congress leads to a stalemate and a cessation of non-essential government services. Guardian columnist Gary Younge sets out what it means in practice - and what it means for the remainder of Barack Obama's term in office.
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