News
UK economy shrinks at quickest pace in seven months
"Another dismal day for growth in the UK economy. Appalling Tory decisions (and failures to make decisions) have left us stuck in a low growth, high tax trap.”
The Economy
The landscape isn’t as rosy for Osborne as it appears
2020 is not yet sewn up for the Tories
Making Corbynomics credible
John McDonnell’s appointment of a council of economic experts is a shrewd move
Labour must become the champion of self-employed workers
But what would that mean in practice?
The cuts to come: what will the budget mean for departmental spending?
New IPPR analysis of the budget shows a 30 per cent cut in resource spending for unprotected departments by 2019/20
ONS Economic Review: the irrelevance of labour market ‘tightness’ to the inflation outlook
The higher the implied ‘tightness’ the lower the inflation reading