Some leadership contenders seem to have big plans for a smaller state.
- Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
As the Johnson government ends, here’s what lies ahead for a new UK chancellor
The UK chancellor is giving a one-off payment of £1,200 to the most vulnerable households, while U-turning on a windfall tax for energy companies.
Sunak’s family financial arrangements raise questions about whether, as chancellor, he benefits from rules he sets himself.
Interest rates, inflation and huge debts will all be up for debate.
Protecting jobs that will be lost anyway is money that could be spent on building the green economy.
Boris Johnson says he wants to get on top of the UK’s productivity problem, but the job measures in the summer statement could take the country in the opposite direction.
We could welcome the news that prices have been rising much more slowly since the coronavirus pandemic – or we could get nervous.
The British currency is showing the strain of the government’s rescue plan.
The question is: how long will Rishi Sunak last?
As fears of a US-China trade war grow, the eurozone is starting to look like a rock.
When poorer countries print more money, it doesn’t make them richer – it just means people need more money to buy the same things.
From trade to medicines, the UK government’s ‘just in case’ planning is revealing.
A psychological tendency to gamble rather than accept certain losses, may lead to a surge in support for a harder Brexit.
Could the ‘magic money tree’ have been right under our nose this whole time?
The UK inflation rate has leapt to 2.3% – here’s why the government is secretly happy about it.
What are we to make of RBS failing the Bank of England’s stress tests?
Hammond has taken an oddly similar stance to former shadow chancellor Ed Balls: running a deficit and boosting infrastructure spending.
As the budget deficit fades from political view, anxiety shifts to the much wider current account deficit. It may signal UK dynamism, but neither financing nor closing it look easy after Brexit.
A drop in migration from the EU would ease demand for housing, but also reduce the availability of those legendary Polish house builders, who will be hard to replace with local labour.
One of the worst hit countries during the financial crisis has regained economic strength inside a gilded cage – to the extent that it can now step outside, melt it down and re-sell the gold.
While New York clings firmly to its system of rent control, London’s housing market has changed too much to re-introduce them.
Amid sluggish global growth and a stuttering UK economy, George Osborne delivers his eighth budget.
Oddly enough, London’s mayor will have been cheered to spark a sell-off in the pound when political colleagues barely raised an eyebrow on skittish markets.
Chancellor George Osborne has laid out his plans for UK spending for the next five years.
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