Despite the huffing of ideologues, the world has moved on. Voters and businesses are calling for more effective protections, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

World Bank forecasts show GDP per capita in Poland is on track to overtake UK by 2030

brexit and Scottish independence have benefited Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf – now both are suffering the consequences, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Businesses say fees for Dover inspections are much higher than first thought and will push up shop prices

Follows warning the scheme will damage business confidence and increase the cost of the weekly shop

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as French GDP accelerates, and HSBC announces CEO’s retirement

Second phase of physical checks could result in price increases in shops, as businesses pass on costs to consumers

A woman who uses asparagus to predict the future has shared when she thinks the next general election will be held - and it doesn’t look good for Sir Keir Starmer. Jemima Packington, the world’s only “asparamancer” and who foresaw Queen Eliza ...

Dublin records near-doubling of tax revenue from duties on imports of clothing, food and other goods from Great Britain

Elected in the 1997 landslide, Westminster’s answer to Hugh Grant was one of the first openly gay MPs – and a firebrand on TV. After 27 years, he reveals why he’s leaving politics behind

Starmer wants to make Tory policy on the economy a central theme of its election campaign … without mentioning brexit

Rana Mitter, vice president for public engagement, keen to move on from colonial guilt and post-brexit introspection

Sort of: this week will see inspections of some goods. But the hit to businesses and inflation will be inescapable

Labour mayor’s lead over Tory rival has narrowed in week before mayoral election in the capital

Ireland’s foreign affairs minister connected the controversial policy to Britain’s failure to control migration after brexit

Such policies are ‘betrayal’ of values, says French president in speech covering defence and negative effects of brexit

Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks were due to start next week but committee raises concerns over delays to plan

Polster suggests timescale of a potential vote depends on ‘uncertain’ politics and how a potential incoming Labour government approaches relations with the EU

As David Cameron learned to his cost over brexit, voters don’t judge politicians on policy, they judge on results, says Henry Hill of ConservativeHome

Ministers are braced for legal challenges to the Rwanda plan and the judiciary has made 25 courtrooms available to deal with cases.