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Firms rush to Liverpool conference as party launches City-friendly policies – and secures wealthy donors

Unions fear that jobs will be lost through £500m green steel subsidy deal with Tata which has been announced today

Sometimes I worry I’m the only person in Britain who’s not been asked to a breakfast meeting with Jonathan Reynolds. That I tend not to eat before noon and have little of value to offer the shadow business secretary is beside the point: it’s always nice to be invited.

The prawns have been defrosted, the Marie Rose sauce decanted and the lettuce shredded: Labour is once again wooing big businesses. Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have stepped up their efforts to win over the City, with one lobbyist revealing he had been invited to breakfast with shadow business…

One of the closures left a town without a bank.

Jonathan Reynolds visited city for reception with The 55 Group and SME leaders

Shadow business secretary met new director general of scandal-hit lobby group weeks after party cut ties

Having examined how the North of Tyne mayor was barred from standing again, I see something akin to McCarthyism, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Research suggests Scotland’s economy would be £8.5bn bigger had it grown since 2010 as it did under the last Labour government.