Summary This briefing looks at the impact of the pandemic on the UK’s public finances and assesses the scale of … Continue reading “A briefing on the public finances: How deep a hole are we in?”

It is misleading to claim that the UK has maxed out the credit card – but worse to suggest the … Continue reading “New IEA research asks: How deep a hole are we in?”

If rolled out efficiently, the vaccines could spark our economic recovery, at the heart of which will be the ‘levelling … Continue reading “Investment won’t be enough to “level-up” Britain”

The additional £339 billion debt incurred to deal with Covid is “the equivalent of £6 million for every person who … Continue reading “Government has failed to balance restrictions against costs to health, wealth and wellbeing”

In response to reports that the Chancellor has ordered a review into Capital Gains Tax, Professor Philip Booth, Senior Academic … Continue reading “Capital gains tax should be scrapped and majorly reformed”

Responding to the Spending Review, the IEA’s Director General Mark Littlewood told the Daily Mail that the Chancellor “can’t squeeze … Continue reading “The Chancellor “can’t squeeze the private sector any further””

Responding to the Chancellor’s Spending Review, Mark Littlewood, Director General at the free-market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said:  “The … Continue reading “The Chancellor’s diagnosis was correct but “the medicine is inadequate””

IEA Director General Mark Littlewood’s comments on the Spending Review were included by Conservative Home in a round-up of think … Continue reading “‘No return to austerity’ is a good slogan, but austerity there will be”

It is no wonder the electorate supports a windfall tax to try to deal with the costs of the pandemic. … Continue reading “Windfall taxes are no free lunch”