How to balance the UK books: six options open to Rachel Reeves | Economics

Rachel Reeves is under pressure to tackle a multibillion-pound shortfall in the government finances. Labour’s high-stakes welfare U-turn and a spike in bond markets prompted…

‘David Attenborough on a tenner’: Guardian readers’ ideas for new banknotes | Money

Banknotes issued by the Bank of England are to have a major redesign for the first time in more than 50 years. Historic figures such…

First-time buyers turn from rural areas to Britain’s regional cities | Housing market

With the rise of home working and surging house prices in many urban areas, one might have assumed that British cities had lost some of…