Is the Government prepared for the political pressures of a rise in interest rates?

Not only would many borrowers feel pain, but the Opposition might well be tempted to seize the chance to pile on the pressure.

Alex Morton: May should call an general election next spring. Britain’s economic position demands it.

She needs the larger majority that a poll would deliver if she is to achieve her programme at a time of pre-Brexit turbulence.

Alex Morton: A message to the Prime Minister – we still need a smaller state.

What stands in the way of the homes, jobs and savings proclaimed on the masthead of this site is not a state that’s too liberal, but one that’s not liberal enough.

May decisions for autumn. 1) What’s to be done about the deficit?

The Prime Minister and Hammond must choose between risks.

Rebalancing the economy requires a new monetary policy

Both consumer price inflation and higher interest rates are needed.

Joe Carlebach: Please don’t forget our hard-working small savers

If interest rates are cut banks may actually start charging to hold cash deposits.

Howard Flight: Conundrums of economic policy in the wake of Brexit

Overall, my advice is not to seek to reduce interest rates yet further which could have contrarian effects.

May must act to save the nation’s savers

Every Prime Minister starts out talking about higher productivity but ends up offering more debt and cheap credit. Will this one break the mould?

The scale of Britain’s (and Osborne’s) exposure to China

The Chinese economy is a study in what can happen when stimuluses run out.

Ryan Bourne: Price controls cause shortages, queues, overcrowding, underinvestment and unemployment. And they’re back.

They seem to be more back in vogue with all political parties than at any time since the 1970s.

The horror of our debt interest spending, explained

This year’s payments will surpass the Transport, Home Office, Justice and Energy budgets combined.

Another fiscally conservative reason for not paying off our debts

The weird but real phenomenon of negative interest rates

Andrew Lilico: Solon v Nasreddin – or Seisachtheia v the Sultan’s Singing Horse

Syriza not only wants to cancel Greece’s debts to foreign governments but the debts of individual Greeks to each other.