The Latest Breaking News from Kwasi Kwarteng

ONE of Liz Truss’s ministers has said “anyone paying attention” to the Tory leadership election would know she had planned to cut taxes.

The new prime minister began September promising a ‘new era’ for Britain. One economic crisis later, she has delivered

Labour has a brief window to sear a narrative into the public’s mind, so the Conservatives are saddled with this crisis for years, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The day before new UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget plan for economic growth, a pound would buy you about $1.13. After financial markets rejected the plan, the pound suddenly sunk to around $1.07. Though it has since rallied thanks to major intervention from the Bank of England, the currency remains…

Exclusive: Concerns about not capping number of areas allowed to get favourable tax and planning treatment

Nottingham experts have had their say on a raft of government policies

Crispin Odey described his bets against government debt as "the gifts that keep on giving"

Tories head to conference with rocketing mortgage rates, a sterling crash and a 33-point poll lead for Labour

Adam Curtis’s BBC project, TraumaZone, show us extraordinary events though the eyes of ordinary people, and how ideologues betrayed them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde