A proposed real-terms cut to capital budgets risks exacerbating school maintenance backlogs and shows the government does “not care about the state of school buildings”, a union leader has said.
The government has only met its target to show debt will fall by “pretending” certain measures, including the fuel duty freeze, will end this year, economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have...
Most public services will remain worse in four years’ time than they were just before Covid-19 – and most of them were already worse than they were in 2010 – CIPFA and the Institute for Government’s...
Growing confidence in UK policymaking in the year following the mini-budget has prompted ratings agency Moody’s to revise its credit outlook for the UK back to ‘stable’.
The shadow chancellor has set out the potential next government’s spending agenda, and shown off an endorsement from a former Bank of England governor.
The Conservative Party “will always protect public services”, the chancellor insisted as he announced his ambition to cut civil service numbers back to their pre-pandemic level.
Increasing taxes would bring the tax burden in line with other advanced economies and support more effective public services, the Institute for Public Policy Research has said.