Too much has changed, economically and politically, since 1979.
- Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
The town just so happens to be right next to the chancellor’s constituency.
Rishi Sunak has delivered his first budget as UK chancellor and the Conservative Party’s first budget since winning the 2019 general election.
A political economist explains the background to Labour and the Conservatives’ new commitment to spending and borrowing.
What is Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan?
Yes, the North voted for Brexit, but it’s not to blame for it.
The Labour leader doesn’t really want another referendum, he wants an election – and striking a deal with the prime minister makes one less likely.
The Labour leader insists he wants ‘no-deal Brexit’ off the table before sitting down with the prime minister. But that’s not the full picture.
The former Chancellor was no economist, but he was better at politics than Theresa May.
Controlling immigration was the most important concern for Brexit voters and May’s deal does that.
From the economy to education, experts from a range of areas impacted by the budget share their reactions.
There’s a good reason why Brexiters aren’t coming up with an alternative to Theresa May’s Chequers plan.
A new division tasked with delivering the country’s economic goals should be the first step.
The UK government’s inability to devise a fundamentally new economic policy is why it will likely fudge a soft Brexit.
Former chancellor Osborne’s plans were too limited to be useful. Here’s how devolution should be done.
The UK’s withdrawal from the European Union is a product, ironically, of the political elite’s longstanding aversion to democratic self-rule.
The Autumn Statement was supposed to be a celebratory moment for the coalition government – with its deficit-reduction strategy nearing completion and the 2015 election on the horizon, pre-election giveaways…
The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has delivered the financial package he hopes will convince voters to deliver a Conservative majority in May 2015. Here, our team of academic experts responds…
It took about a decade to construct the cross-party consensus, and the support of trade unions and employers, that made automatic enrolment into private pension schemes a realistic prospect. The achievement…
The evidence is mounting about how regressive the UK tax system has become under the coalition government. Our work for the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) highlighted how those…
Until his recent bizarre comments about people using their pensions to pay for Lamborghinis, Steve Webb was rightly regarded as one of the finest pensions ministers Britain has ever had, and one of the…
It has become a truism in the UK that government policy favours older generations because they vote in much larger numbers than young people. This assumption was central to the recent recommendation made…
The current vogue for heralding the recovery of the British manufacturing should not lead us to complacency about the very real difficulties currently faced by the sector. George Osborne’s budget offered…
George Osborne promised Britain a “march of the makers” – but as yet, there is little sign that a resurgence of manufacturing is helping the economy to rebalance. It would be naïve to assume that manufacturing…
The Conservative Party’s 2010 general election manifesto could not have been clearer: “A sustainable recovery must be driven by growth in exports”. As George Osborne specified, the target was “net exports…
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