Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Institute for Fiscal Studies

July 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    The billions Britain needs are at Rachel Reeves’s fingertips, and no fiscal promises need be broken

    Polly Toynbee
    These initial cuts must be followed by an autumn budget that taxes the richest and focuses on growth, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

    Chancellor 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

June 2024

  • Rishi Sunak.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak defends decision not to take immediate action against Tories in betting scandal – as it happened

  • Rachel Reeves with UK flags and the slogan Change

    UK finances are a mess and Tories and Labour keeping public in the dark, says IFS

  • HMRC logos and money

    Labour would raise taxes rather than cut spending if growth is weak, says IFS

  • Manchester University students walk past the student union

    Next government faces hard choices on English universities, say experts

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    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

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reform UK plans ‘don’t add up’ and costings are out ‘by tens of billions of pounds per year’, says IFS – as it happened

  • Starmer faces further calls for Labour to axe two-child benefit cap

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election TV Q&A: Sunak refuses to accept tax burden will definitely rise during next parliament – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Harder to own your first home under the Tories, Rishi Sunak admits – UK politics as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: IFS attacks Tory pledge not to reform ‘absurd’ council tax system – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour dismisses no confidence vote in Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething as Tory ‘stunt’ – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election: Starmer and Sunak clash over taxes, the NHS and immigration in head-to-head TV debate – as it happened

  • English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds

May 2024

  • A line of soldiers

    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
About 403 results for Institute for Fiscal Studies
1234...
  翻译: