Institute for Fiscal Studies
The billions Britain needs are at Rachel Reeves’s fingertips, and no fiscal promises need be broken
Polly ToynbeeThese initial cuts must be followed by an autumn budget that taxes the richest and focuses on growth, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happenedChancellor suggests budget, on 30 October, will involve tax rises and cuts to spending and benefits
Soaring UK mortgage rates have pushed 320,000 adults into poverty, thinktank says
Labour facing moment of truth over tax pledges, economists warn
Twice as many Britons want tax rises as want cuts, survey finds
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Sunak defends decision not to take immediate action against Tories in betting scandal – as it happenedUK finances are a mess and Tories and Labour keeping public in the dark, says IFS
Labour would raise taxes rather than cut spending if growth is weak, says IFS
Next government faces hard choices on English universities, say experts
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Tory government ‘worst in postwar era’, claims expert study – as it happened‘Glacial’ progress on levelling up in UK means more resources needed, says thinktank
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Reform UK plans ‘don’t add up’ and costings are out ‘by tens of billions of pounds per year’, says IFS – as it happenedStarmer faces further calls for Labour to axe two-child benefit cap
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General election TV Q&A: Sunak refuses to accept tax burden will definitely rise during next parliament – as it happenedPolitics live with Andrew Sparrow
Harder to own your first home under the Tories, Rishi Sunak admits – UK politics as it happenedPolitics live with Andrew Sparrow
UK politics: IFS attacks Tory pledge not to reform ‘absurd’ council tax system – as it happenedPolitics live with Andrew Sparrow
Labour dismisses no confidence vote in Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething as Tory ‘stunt’ – as it happenedPolitics live with Andrew Sparrow
General election: Starmer and Sunak clash over taxes, the NHS and immigration in head-to-head TV debate – as it happenedEnglish pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds
Tory national service policy would leave UK’s poorest areas worse off, IFS warns
Thinktank says proposal to pay for scheme by scrapping shared prosperity fund would downgrade efforts to level up country
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