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Think tank: Resolution Foundation

Author(s): Various authors

October 31, 2024

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation puts the autumn budget 2024 decisions on tax, spending and borrowing into context.

This has been the most anticipated Budget of modern times.

It had to wrestle with profound – and sometimes conflicting – challenges: fixing the strained public services; repairing failing public services; and breaking with the UK’s dire record on public investment.

And all of this had to be squared with pre-election pledges not to raise the rates of any of Britain’s most important taxes.