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A workman eats a snack outside a Greggs store

Greggs sees sales jump amid surging cost inflation

Lorna Fitzsimons and Margaret McDonagh, who co-authored the Women Count 2022 report

Lack of women in top FTSE 350 jobs costing economy billions – report

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Tories seek to shift focus from economy after U-turn humiliation

House rooftops

Homeowners who lose job ‘may face initial lack of help with mortgage payments’

Kwasi Kwarteng at the Conservative Party conference

Kwarteng shrugs off ‘little turbulence’ after U-turn over tax cut for rich

Jacob Rees-Mogg speaking at the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham

UK’s first prototype fusion energy plant to be built by 2040 – Rees-Mogg

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian settles with US agency over crypto promotion

Ranil Jayawardena

Environment Secretary: Water firms to face fines up to £250m for sewage dumping

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Douglas Ross: U-turn on top rate of income tax ‘the right decision’

London Stock Exchange

FTSE rises after briefly nearing 18-month lows

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Kwarteng acknowledges ‘tough’ day after U-turn over tax cut for rich

Models of houses on coins and banknotes

Treasury deletes first-time buyer tweet after criticism from Martin Lewis

Nicola Sturgeon in Holyrood

‘Whole package’ of UK Government financial measures needs rethink, says Sturgeon

Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg arrives for the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham

Jacob Rees-Mogg backs fracking at country pile but says no to local referendums

Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss

Liz Truss has confidence in Kwasi Kwarteng despite 45p tax rate U-turn

A domestic gas ring

‘Significant risk’ of gas shortages this winter, Ofgem warns

Kwasi Kwarteng

‘Massive spending cuts will still be needed’ despite Chancellor’s U-turn

Kwasi Kwarteng

From tax-cutting triumphalism to ditching the plans, how Kwasi Kwarteng U-turned