IEA Economics Fellow Julian Jessop has been featured in The Daily Express analysing some of the positive measures in the Budget.

Julian said:

“I think there were three big positives to take out of it.

“One is that, in a sense, the fact that he has not been too bold means actually has avoided one obvious trap, which is if he had really done a lot, then that might have scared the Bank of England and prevented them from cutting interest rates.

“The second point is that I think what he said about public services was very sensible.

“That we should try and do more, with the same amount of money rather than just continuing having a bigger and bigger state.

“And then the third thing, of course, was the cut to national insurance now.”

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