Spring Statement 2022: Do you wannabe my tax-cutter?

Wannabe Thatcherite Rishi Sunak believes that the path to the premiership he craves runs through a low tax agenda that revs the engines of the tory backbenchers and grassroots party members that decide leadership elections. But he also knows that the prospects of a...
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...

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...

Labour's spending plans to cost £25 billion

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has analysed Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls’ plans to match Chancellor George Osborne’s commitment to clearing the ‘current deficit’, noting that this doesn’t commit the Labour Party to clearing...