Austerity

By Harry Quilter-Pinner; Dean Hochlaf; Clare McNeil

This report from the UK think tank IPPR looks at ending austerity in the UK. Since 2010/11, successive UK governments…

By Harry Quilter Pinner; Dean Hochlaf

“A decade after the financial crash, people need to know that the austerity it led to is over.” These were…

By Various authors

In a spending review year, Cities Outlook 2019 explores how local government cuts since 2010 have impacted UK cities, finding…

By Rita Beden; Lahari Ramuni; Zach Wilcox; Siri Arntzen

The inaugural UK City Leaders’ Survey, developed jointly by Centre for Cities and Arup, asked the elected leaders of the…

By Daniel Mahoney

Recent weeks have seen the issue of the public sector pay cap re-surface and several Cabinet members have suggested they…

By Daniel Mahoney; Robert Colvile

On the eve of the Spring Statement, Philip Hammond finds himself in a much happier position than last time he…

By Matt Whittaker

Britain is seven years into a prolonged period of fiscal consolidation, in which constraints on public spending have been the…

By David Finch

Our pre-election series of briefing notes have so far centred on the main parties’ approaches to deficit reduction and to…

By Adam Corlett; Matthew Whittaker

While the deficit remains in place, it is heading back to the sort of level relative to the size of…