Banks may have stolen the political spotlight this week, but attention is slowly returning to issues a majority of voters care about. Which may explain why Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and London Mayor Sadiq Khan were engaged in a war of words about housebuilding on Twitter, which is being rebranded as X.
There is also increasing concern among Treasury advisers that the Bank of England risks raising interest rates too much in the coming months, pushing the UK into an unnecessary recession, according to this scoop from Alex Wickham, Philip Aldrick and Joe Mayes.