Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
The UK’s fiscal position is not just precarious; it is on the brink of becoming unsustainable. With just one more crisis, like the global financial crisis and the Pandemic that we’ve experienced in the last 20 years, the situation could escalate rapidly. A return to strong growth would reduce this risk but will be a …
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It seems churlish to say that this was a Budget packed with detail but no overarching strategic vision or plan. It was, after all, billed as a Budget for a seminal moment in the UK. It was coming at the end of the first global pandemic since 1918, and it was the first one in …
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