Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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I was asked over the weekend if I would create a glossary entry on hot money, and given that this seemed both appropriate and not
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and
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As the FT notes this morning: HM Revenue & Customs has lost hundreds of millions of pounds more than previously estimated to an insolvency practice
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People say Rachel Reeves faces a £40bn “black hole” in the UK budget. She is hinting at tax rises — but that gap could be
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The tax gap remains in the news this week. Today, the Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on the issue in which they
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Reform has come up with one of the most stupid tax proposals I have ever heard of. As The Guardian summarises it: Reform UK are
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