Budget 2026 - Thomas Pope, BBC 5 Live Thomas Pope, IfG chief economist, gives his verdict on the budget and tells us why the chancellor’s short-term giveaways can't continue indefinitely.

Alex Thomas in quoted in the Financial Times on Antonia Romeo as cabinet secretary.

The Board of Governors, chaired by Sir Ian Cheshire, provides strategic direction for the Institute’s work. The Board of Governors, chaired by Sir Ian Cheshire, provides strategic direction for the ...

The Institute is a not for profit organisation, a registered charity (No: 1123926) and a company limited by guarantee (No: 6480524). The Institute employs about 50 staff based at its office in ...

In the final episode of our series, we explore lessons former mid-term transitions hold for Andy Burnham’s premiership – or future mid-term PMs.

Rachel Reeves has put economic growth front and centre since becoming the UK's first female chancellor a year ago. There have been big calls on overall tax, spending and borrowing, accompanied by ...

In his seven hours of testimony to a Commons committee, the prime minister’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, laid out a portrait of a chaotic government failing in its basic functions. Some of ...

Former defence secretary John Healey meeting British Joint Forces service personnel at in Cyprus. Healey resigned over defence funding in June 2026. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Trump’s ...

A high speed train on the platform at St Pancras International station. The government has announced it will delay building the Birmingham to Crewe leg of HS2. Mark Harper is not the first transport ...

Some of those objectives are well within reach. Attendance is moving in the right direction, and the Department for Education has a route to further improvement, particularly through better data and ...

There is substantial variation in the levels of care England's local authorites provide to older adults. The provision of adult social care by local authorities in England should, in theory, be based ...

The annual Institute for Government/Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) public services stocktake reveals that the government’s spending plans from April 2025 onwards – which ...