Rachel Reeves has told the cabinet that the UK still faces a £100bn black hole in the public finances over the next five years amid concerns that ministers are yet to grasp the full scale of the fiscal deficit ahead. At a meeting of the political cabinet, the chancellor said the £22bn gap this year…

George Monbiot rightly eviscerates the government’s foolish plan to waste nearly £22bn on the carbon capture and storage (CCS) venture (Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions, 11 October). But he only hints at a worse aspect of the plan: that it is entirely unproven to work on the scale…

The bioenergy resource model referred to in your article (Anger at UK’s ‘bonkers’ plan to reach net zero by importing fuel from North Korea, 9 October) is a scenario-planning document, setting out what biomass could be available and from where. It is not, and should not be viewed as, official government policy or reflective of industry…

Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, sold 42,528 copies in its opening week after being published on 10 October, making it the bestselling book of last week. This means Johnson has outsold David Cameron’s 2019 memoir, For the Record, which sold 20,792 copies in the week it was published, though Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey, sold 92,060…