Helia Ebrahimi , Economics Correspondent

NatWest has admitted three counts of failing to properly monitor suspect activity by a customer who deposited hundreds of millions of pounds in its account, much of it in cash. It’s the first time a UK financial institution has faced criminal prosecution under anti money laundering laws and the state owned bank could now face…

The energy squeeze on British households looks set to intensify after wholesale gas prices shot up spectacularly this morning, rising by more than a third at one point. But prices then dropped back after an intervention from President Putin.

Faced with an economy battered by the pandemic and an uncertain future, is that kind of rosy confidence realistic?

At one point, it covered the wages of nearly a third of the country’s workforce. But today furlough comes to an end. Most economists believe that the multi-billion pound scheme saved Britain from mass unemployment during the Covid lockdown. Now it is disappearing just as the economy faces a new shock – with gas, petrol…

From failing energy companies and soaring gas prices to this acute HGV driver shortage, is there something fundamentally wrong with the UK economy, and is there a way out of it?

Now the Bank of England has predicted that rising domestic energy bills will push inflation above 4 per cent.

MPs have launched a blistering attack on the social media giant Google for failing to tackle online fraud.

The crisis that is cutting down many gas suppliers has raised questions about how vulnerable the energy market in this country has become to global shocks.

MPs have accused the Department for Work and Pensions of being unable to explain why there’s a “shocking inequality” in UK unemployment, after the jobless figure among young Black people soared to more than 41% during the pandemic. 

The pressures to spend more on the NHS in the short term and social care in the long term are clear. But the way national insurance works has raised doubts about whether it’s fair – between rich and poor and between the generations. So what is the right answer to these big spending challenges?

Today saw the opening salvos in what’s set to be a ferocious battle this autumn over the government’s spending plans.

Afghanistan’s foreign reserves have been frozen and the International Monetary Fund has cut off access to loans.

The latest ONS figures out today show job vacancies are at a record high of nearly one million while unemployment has fallen in the quarter from April to June. Are these further signs the economy is on the road to recovery?

Covid rules have officially changed. From today, under 18s and people who are fully vaccinated in England and Northern Ireland no longer have to self-isolate after coming into contact with someone who’s tested positive for the virus. 

The chancellor and the prime minister are “absolutely united”, Rishi Sunak has told this programme amid newspaper claims of a row between him and Boris Johnson. Today’s GDP figures were encouraging for the Treasury, with output edging close to pre-Covid levels. But Mr Sunak faces a string of multi-billion pound decisions this Autumn on pensions,…