Reading economic news can be confusing. Here’s how to understand what the news is – and isn’t – telling you.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on UK Budget
Displaying 1 - 20 of 35 articles
We talk about ‘fiscal responsibility’ but rarely are a government’s annual accounting exercises assessed in ethical terms.
He steadied the ship in the autumn. Can he now turn around the Conservatives’ electoral fortunes?
With an election ahead and finances stretched to capacity, the prime minister has a difficult balancing act to strike.
Redesigning the UK’s windfall tax on energy companies could help it to bring in more money for public spending.
Our panel of academics responds to the UK government’s latest economic plans.
The OBR’s official inflation forecasts include economists’ expectations, but what about yours?
At every midterm election since 2006, the non-presidential party has easily won control of the House. It will be difficult for Democrats to defy this history.
Even allowing for falls in asset values and some tax dodging, a modest tax on the wealthiest could pay off the government’s ballooning debt.
A political economist explains the background to Labour and the Conservatives’ new commitment to spending and borrowing.
A few billion is not a massive amount compared to the government’s total budget for the year. But it could significantly help school and police budgets.
From the economy to education, experts from a range of areas impacted by the budget share their reactions.
Are the Conservatives admitting that austerity hasn’t worked?
Austerity policies cut Britain’s brief recovery from the financial short and brought recession, stagnation and growing poverty.
The UK media failed to challenge the government narrative of austerity despite its failure to revive the economy.
Britain’s finance minister delivers his first Spring Statement hot on the heels of some rather good economic news.
New statistics show the UK has half a trillion pounds less in its account than previously thought.
A deep dive into public sector earnings data since 2005 and how it compares to private sector pay.
The UK government’s U-turn on a national insurance increase for self-employed people exposes the flaws in its approach to building a stronger and more inclusive economy.
Changes to the national insurance tax for self-employed people was one of the most controversial parts of the 2017 spring budget.
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
-
Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
-
Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
-
Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
-
Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
-
Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
-
Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
-
Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS, University of London
-
Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Hull
-
Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
-
Professor of Economics, University of Aberdeen
-
Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Government (Emeritus) University of Manchester and Research Associate, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
-
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Lancaster University
-
Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
