The Latest Breaking News from Jonathan Reynolds

As the budget looms, where the party stands on investment in the UK economy, workers’ rights and more

Scheduling of event two weeks before budget in late October criticised at party conference as ‘wrong way round’

Exclusive: business secretary says some headlines about planned employment bill ‘pretty obviously wrong’

Civil servants should get back in the office in Whitehall and other parts of Britain to boost the economy, says Rachel Reeves.

Increased flexibility and allowing working from home creates a more productive workforce – so says the Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds. In response to Amazon insisting that workers return to working five days a week in the office, he says: “Workers should be judged by their output, not by whether they…

Exclusive: government is hoping to avert a potentially damaging row at Labour conference

To tackle staff shortages, jobs in schools and other public services must be made more attractive

The prime minister promised a government a world apart from Rishi Sunak’s, yet the similarities are mounting

The PM’s chief of staff’s pay rise has reportedly angered Labour Party special advisers

Conservative Party has claimed prime minister had ‘snatched away support for the vulnerable’ while handing large pensions to his senior officials

Ministers have ‘no political input’ into the pay of advisers, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says