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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will accuse chancellor Rachel Reeves on Thursday of rolling out “mad and bad ideas”, while deriding some of the Labour government’s plan on schools as “vandalism” and “worse than garbage”.Badenoch will claim that her party, while in government, stood firm against repeated attempts by Whitehall officials to push proposals to cancel the universal winter fuel payment and close inheritance tax loopholes on farms.Reeves has pursued both policies “because she has no ideas of her own”, the Tory leader…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Chancellor Rachel Reeves will this week step up pressure on Britain’s regulators to rip up anti-growth rules, in the face of renewed criticism from business that the government is making things worse. CBI chair Rupert Soames on Monday said business was “bruised” by government policies and new employment regulations would hamper growth and cause job losses. Labour’s election manifesto contained promises to regulate a range of areas from the workplace to football. The government’s own impact assessment on its workers’ rights package…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The number of businesses planning to raise prices in the coming months has jumped sharply as increases in the UK Budget in tax and wage costs caused confidence to “slump”, the British Chambers of Commerce has warned. About 55 per cent of companies said they were planning to increase prices in the coming three months, up from 39 per cent in the third quarter, the lobby group’s survey of almost 5,000 businesses found. The expected price rises will fuel concerns that Budget measures will…