All news on the topic: The economy

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng is sticking by the "general direction" of his mini budget that crashed the UK economy, but admits that he has regrets

Guest columnist Paul Nowak - general secretary of the Trades Union Congress - is urging the government to stop attacking workers' right to strike and sort out the staffing crisis across the public sector

The ex-leader - who remains a Labour member - has had the whip suspended since October 2020. He accused Keir Starmer this week of a 'flagrant attack on the democratic rights' of party members

A new report on the night time economy - which also looks at how music venues, theatres and cinemas are faring - found that most are in "survival" rather than "thrive" mode amid calls for VAT to be cut in the upcoming Budget

Former LGBT+ champion Iain Anderson said he was disillusioned with the Conservative party he's supported for nearly 40 years, saying: 'It’s not the party it used to be - I can’t defend it'

Johan Eliasch has given Liz Truss £15,000 to pay for staff and to support her work. Forced to quit as PM after just 44 days in October, Ms Truss launched her political return last week

The Government wants to blame the pandemic and the war in Ukraine for this dire situation rather than admit it is the product of 12 years of Conservative failure

Mirror reader Barry Foster says normal working people have to suffer 'while the real culprits make excuses and get away with it'. But what do you think? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Some steel industry insiders believe the Government is determined to 'manage decline' of the once-thriving industry amid sky-high energy costs and moves to slash pollution

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research issues its latest quarterly briefing - warning of misery for households across the UK and attacking Tory levelling-up claims

Liz Truss has claimed it is 'unfair' for struggling families to blame her for spiralling mortgage rates - but in a small bit of good news, she said 'no' when asked if she would like to be PM again

Liz Truss' bonkers 4,000-word comeback essay has prompted quite a lot of reaction this sunny, Sunday morning. Here's some of the best comments and funniest responses to her comeback bid

In a 4,000 word screed, Liz Truss blamed everyone from the "economic establishment" to Joe Biden for getting in the way of her bonkers plan for unfunded tax cuts - but even her own ministers say her plan was to blame

The disaster-prone ex-PM complained she was never given a "realistic chance" to implement her wild, uncosted tax-cutting rampage because a "powerful economic establishment" got in the way

A sensational Sunday Mirror poll today shows that 48% who declared themselves Conservative voters last time either strongly support or support going to the ballot box in 2023 That rises to 61% of all voters

This Government has tried so hard to contribute to the economy, jokes Mark Steel. Nadhim Zahawi went as far as having to pay a £1million penalty when he got caught not paying his tax

Around 1,300 workers at UK Power Networks - who maintain the electricity grid in London, the South East and East - are being balloted in a pay row led by Unite union

Labour's Rachel Reeves warned that Rishi Sunak is 'holding us back as a country' as he drowns in sleaze scandals - and says he lost to Liz Truss who 'in turn lost to a lettuce... He's not a winner this guy'

The Voice of the Mirror has taken aim at greedy energy companies making huge returns off the back of others' pain, including Vladimir Putin's illegal Ukraine invasion

There are plenty of money changes coming up in February that could impact your wallet - from inflation and interest rate announcements to changes to Universal Credit

Today's walkouts by five unions will be biggest day of strike action since 2011 - and will coincide with mass protests by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) against the Government's anti-strike legislation

Let’s be clear, nobody wants to go on strike. Nurses, ambulance workers, firefighters, teachers, transport workers and civil servants are members of our communities and they care deeply about serving our society

Neil Kinnock gave his famous 'I warn you' speech just days before Margaret Thatcher won the 1983 general election by a landslide, 40 years later, he says his prophetic words are now "so close to reality"

Disabled people battle constantly to be called what they are, with AP Styleguide's recent tweet a "vomit-inducing" example of the problem, says Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey

In an article for the Mirror, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on workers across the country to support its Protect the Right to Strike campaign day on Wednesday