Anya Ahmed

Chancellor George Osborne delivers his eighth budget. Hannah McKay / PA Wire

March 16, 2016

Budget 2016: experts respond

Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University; Alan Shipman, The Open University; Andrew Street, University of York; Anya Ahmed, University of Salford; Daniel Muijs, University of Southampton; David Eiser, University of Stirling; Eoin Flaherty, Queen's University Belfast; Gavin Midgley, University of Southampton; John Maloney, University of Exeter; John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science; Jonquil Lowe, The Open University, and Stephen Roper, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Amid sluggish global growth and a stuttering UK economy, George Osborne delivers his eighth budget.

She speaks. Russell Boyce/POOL/EPA

May 27, 2015

Helen Fenwick, Durham University; Alex Nurse, University of Liverpool; Andrew Street, University of York; Anya Ahmed, University of Salford; Arman Sarvarian, University of Surrey; Benjamin Bowman, University of Bath; Caitlin McLean, Glasgow Caledonian University; Imran Awan, Birmingham City University; Katharine Jones, Coventry University; Michael Emerson, Centre for European Policy Studies; Michael Jopling, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Peter Lynch, University of Stirling; Prem Sikka, University of Essex; Roy Sainsbury, University of York, and Stephen Roper, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Academic experts break down the bills in the Queen’s speech and get to grips with the new Conservative government’s agenda.

Miliband might ease the squeeze in Canary Wharf but what about the rest of the country? Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

April 21, 2015

Anya Ahmed, University of Salford

Miliband throws renters a lifeline but the neediest still miss out on affordable housing.