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; Robert Colvile

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

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 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…