With a leadership election on the horizon, there are discussions among the backbenches about how potential contenders might look to reshape and re-energise the UK's growth. The Observer's political editor Rachel Sylvester speaks with economics editor Ben Zaranko about what the various approaches might look like.

Studies from across the party are setting out competing ideas of how the state should fix Britain’s broken model, from ‘Manchesterism’ to supply-side reform

The prospect of the Labour leadership contest adds a great big dollop of uncertainty for bond markets

With a little serenity, courage and wisdom Labour can put the country on the path to economic growth – time will tell if voters permit it

Something needs to change to make Britain grow again

Relative inequality has remained stable but the rich are getting richer, while the rest find it harder to earn and save their way up the ladder

Gilts that would once have been bought by the Bank of England are now being snapped up by overseas investors. If they’re spooked into selling, things could get messy

Senior Labour figures and business leaders call for a bolder move than the current ‘reset’ of European relationsto see off Green threat

Once again, the UK finds itself at the sharp end of a global economic crisis, suffering more than our European neighbours

The latest nominee to head the US Federal Reserve  faces a tough job – not least proving he isn’t Trump’s stooge

Iran has suggested that transit fees could be paid in cryptocurrency or Chinese yuan

Economists clash over whether weakness in the economy or structural changes to the labour market explain the spike in joblessness

Fiscal thresholds are too constraining and make for facile public debate. It’s time to adopt a broader assessment

To increase spending to meet our Nato pledge, a cash-strapped Treasury must find billions of pounds. This could get ugly

It felt as if the government diagnosed some problems, thought about taking bold action, only to play it safe

Knee-jerk policy based on volatile economic forecasts is wholly misguided. All we can be sure of is this: bumpy weeks ahead

ONS figures suggest we need a dose of realism about how to get more for our money from public services

The leaders’ new ‘golden rules’ for the economy are clumsy, inflexible and unnecessarily restrictive

The spines on the OBR’s charts are a signal to the chancellor to pull all the levers to improve our growth prospects

Three years after the former PM sparked an economic crisis, here’s how the chancellor can avoid the same mistakes