Budget 2021: Rishi’s risky road to recovery

Budget 2021: Rishi’s risky road to recovery

This was an easy budget for Rishi Sunak to deliver. He’s under limited pressure from his own party (for now) to set out how he will pay for the pandemic-related spending that kept the British economy afloat. The red wall Tory MPs in northern red wall seats will be...

The World’s poorest will lose out most from Covid: we must build back better

The British Government’s political policy decision to abolish the statutory requirement to spend 0.7% of gross domestic product on overseas aid came in for a savage pasting from MPs and Peers in an online meeting with one of the country’s leading overseas...

Spring Statement 2019: The Analysis

Summary Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond gave his Spring Statement in the House of Commons this afternoon, speaking to the recent achievements of the UK economy. In what is widely regarded as a fiscal non-event for its lack of newsworthy content, Hammond...

Budget 2014 – headlines

Chancellor George Osborne has today delivered his fifth Budget at the House of Commons. He announced that the UK economy is forecast to grow 2.7% this year and went on to state that a new £1 coin would be introduced in 2017. Details about public borrowing and the...