Tax increases of up to £25bn will be needed in the Budget if spending on local government, police and prisons is to rise in line with national income, according to research from the Institute for...
In a three-and-a-half minute video posted on social media, the ex-Conservative Party leader set out a defence of the economic plan, which was blamed for the country’s subsequent economic crisis.
The prime minister has said there will be “no more money without reform” for the NHS after a damning government-commissioned analysis warned that the service was in a critical condition, chronically...
The government has been urged to balance the UK’s strategic interests in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine against the maintenance of its own military resources.
Oflog has been told to suspend its “early warning conversations” with councils at risk of failure as part of a wide-ranging government review of the watchdog’s remit.
The scale of the financial issues English health services face now and in the coming years is “unprecedented”, the National Audit Office has claimed in a report – with the government claiming the NHS...
The Labour Party’s landslide election victory on the promise of “change” will not lead to big differences in the government’s approach to fiscal policy, analysts at ratings agency Fitch have...
CIPFA’s new chief executive has told the new government it needs to “redefine how public services are funded, empowered and supported” and make progress in areas such as devolution, more predictable...
