The Latest Breaking News from Rachel Reeves

She’s blunt, bolshie and terrifies the Tories. But if Labour gets into government, the deputy leader will be one of the most powerful women in Britain. Bring it on, she says

Beleaguered members cite tradition, but this is an attempt to protect powerful men from society’s progress, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Editorial: A radical agenda is needed to deal with the crises of economic stagnation, political polarisation and the climate emergency. Rachel Reeves did not offer one

Promising to reform the planning system, boost investment and improve skills is all very well, but the detail is missing, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

Shadow chancellor to use annual Mais lecture to set out plans to green the economy if party wins election

Few suspected at the time that the 1979 election was also a 1979 moment. Sure, the gravediggers were on strike and James Callaghan spoke of a "sea-change in politics" about which there was little anyone could do. But the Conservative manifesto of that year was far from unadulterated Thatcherism. Not…

Chancellor says date would allow a spending review to be carried out in time for next April

Shadow chancellor to outline plans to shake up department after Labour election victory

Letters: Peter Riddle says voters fear they will get Tory-lite policies and calls for honesty, while Carl Gardner says the party should make the UK attractive to struggling people, not big business. Plus letters from Martyn Taylor and Michael Meadowcroft

Well-intentioned moves are afoot to ‘overhaul the machinery of government’. But it’s the policies that are the problem

Shadow chancellor will tell high-profile financial audience that ‘mission-led’ governments must take a lead in turbulent times