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Resolution Foundation

July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves, in a slightly ruffle-topped shirt under a blazer, seated next to a woman and three men at a table in front of a Union Jack flag, a Welsh flag and three paintings on a wooden wall, leans forward a little, laughing

    Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists

    Reforms to inheritance and capital gains taxes could reduce £20bn shortfall and combat UK’s widening wealth gap
  • Solar panels on green land

    Labour told it will need to defeat ‘net-zero nimbys’ to decarbonise Britain

    Opposition in wealthier areas is likely and overcoming it is essential, says Resolution Foundation
  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later

    Larry Elliott
    Families cannot afford to wait until UK government says there is money to spare to make such a decision

June 2024

  • Sheffield’s Park Hill flats.

    Book of the day
    Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell review – a roadmap to the new normal

  • A demonstration against austerity in January 2019.

    UK faces £33bn hole in finances or return to austerity, thinktank says

April 2024

  • Causeymire windfarm at Spittal

    High interest rates could add billions to UK green energy transition, says report

  • Three To Let and For Sale signs

    UK rent rises forecast to outpace wage growth for three years

March 2024

  • Rishi Sunak during a Q&A event at a Wetherspoons pub in Maltby, near Rotherham.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – as it happened

  • The foundation said that after adjusting for inflation, household disposable incomes were set to fall by 0.9% between 2019 and the end of 2024.

    UK to have first parliament in modern history with fall in living standards, says thinktank

February 2024

  • Jeremy Hunt

    UK public services will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn

    Chancellor is considering cutting billions more from public spending to pay for reductions in tax or NI
  • Jeremy Hunt at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos in January.

    Jeremy Hunt’s budget giveaway ‘will act as sweet filling in tax sandwich’

    Thinktank says juicy cuts this year follow far bigger increases in 2023 and precede planned ‘chunky rises’
  • Piggy bank sitting on a desk as a woman uses a calculator and makes notes in the background

    More than 11 million Britons have less than £1,000 in savings

    Resolution Foundation calls for auto-enrolment into saving schemes, as millions have no ‘rainy day’ fund
  • stock photo – a family's green wellington boots, four pairs in different sizes from large adults to a small child's, lined up by back door of home

    Only top half of UK earners to benefit from lower NI payments, thinktank warns

    Any gains for lower half will be lost when income tax bills rise in April, says Resolution Foundation
  • The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, speaks at the Resolution Foundation conference in London.

    The broken state of UK economy is clear; Hunt and Starmer’s solutions are less so

  • James Cleverly at an event on 30 November

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    James Cleverly tells MPs crackdown will cut annual immigration numbers by about 300,000 – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer in front of union flag graphic

    Public spending is not the only lever Labour can pull, says Starmer

  • Torsten Bell

    Britain has been in a 15-year economic slump. This is our route out of it

    Torsten Bell
  • Jeremy Hunt blames Brexit for sparking half-decade of instability

  • UK has lacked coherent economic strategy for years, thinktank finds

November 2023

  • Jeremy Hunt

    Jeremy Hunt faces red wall revolt if he delivers ‘a budget for the rich’

    The chancellor’s potential inheritance tax cut in Wednesday’s budget would aid millionaires amid a cost of living crisis
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