public spending
Could Osborne’s budget plans actually work?
If the objective is to reduce debt from one year to the next, neither a surplus – nor even a balanced budget – is strictly necessary
Osborne’s new budget law is about politics, not economics
The chancellor has presented the next Labour leader with an impossible choice
Once again on the myth of Labour’s ‘out of control’ spending
The Labour party got it wrong. Just not in the way you think
New report shows why public-private partnerships don’t work
Secrecy and concealed borrowing protect commercial rather than public interests
Austerity can never work – here’s why
Continuing down the path of austerity while ignoring straightforward - if politically difficult - solutions, will lead the UK closer to economic disaster
UK government planning biggest fiscal consolidation of 32 advanced economies, says IFS
If Osborne's new plans to meet fiscal targets were to be implemented, public spending would hit lowest level since 1948