Political calculations with Treasury figures can be wide of the mark.
- Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
Can the chancellor move the dial on the Tories’ grim polling?
Live blog: all the announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and instant reaction from experts.
It’s budget time again, and maybe the Conservatives’ final major chance to influence the upcoming general election.
The world’s central banks face a range of dilemmas, not least whether high inflation – and therefore high interest rates – will become permanent.
Why the US may not always be able to lead global economic rescue efforts.
He steadied the ship in the autumn. Can he now turn around the Conservatives’ electoral fortunes?
Central banks are raising interest rates to tame inflation, but 2023 will increasingly turn a technical decision into a political challenge.
Swingeing cuts especially to infrastructure spending after 2025 give Labour some choices to make.
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s emergency budget announcement has calmed the market initially but experts see continued challenges.
Crisis, which crisis?
The new chancellor is aiming to increase average UK GDP to 2.5% a year.
With the keys to Number 10 now in her handbag, will the new PM really give the UK a dose of supply-side economics?
The UK may be facing the worst economic conditions in many years, but the chancellor may prefer not to be overly helpful.
Dans le monde entier, le coût de la vie pourrait augmenter du fait de la crise.
The cost of living crisis could get even worse.
The levelling up secretary has unveiled some very big ambitions, but there are still more questions than answers.
There’s a long list of pre-announcements, but it remains to be seen how much turns out to be smoke and mirrors.
Energy prices, unemployment, inflation – it’s all looking a bit 1978. And that’s without COVID.
With an ageing population, pandemic recovery and climate emergency in the in-tray, social care is not the only thing the chancellor has to finance.
After the acrimony of the Trump years, we can expect a very different feel to the latest G7 summit.
The plan is to achieve growth and level up without while sharply cutting the deficit.
China is due to surge ahead, but there is bad news for other developing countries.
The government should look beyond traditional socioeconomic arguments for why some patients are at greater risk.
With half the global workforce facing job loss, massive stimulus packages are needed to revive emerging economies and reduce mass unemployment, poverty and starvation.
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