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.

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 ...

When the Starmer government took office in July 2024, it inherited a criminal justice system in England and Wales that was fundamentally unable to cope with the level of demand it faced. Nowhere was ...

When Labour came into government in July 2024, case backlogs in the criminal courts in England and Wales had been rising almost constantly for years. The open caseload was up 32% in magistrates’ ...

John Healey’s first budget as chancellor on 28 October was a huge moment for Andy Burnham’s government. A difficult fiscal inheritance, made more challenging still by the war in Iran, means Healey and ...

What’s on Burnham’s Brexit menu? Anand Menon is in the studio to weigh up the PM's prospects of diplomacy with Donald Trump's White House, and a possible new relationship with the EU.

Stuart is an associate director working in the Institute’s public services team. Before working at the Institute, he was a management accountant. Stuart’s work focuses on the NHS, adult social care, ...

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