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Economic austerity

  • Analysis: Jeremy Hunt has been E for Everywhere, man

    Analysis

    Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, today said financial stability had to come before tax cuts, but said a competitive ’low tax environment’ would be the backbone of future growth. Sascha O’Sullivan looks at his speech.

  • Year Ahead: Squeeze on household incomes to intensify as tough recession will dominate 2023

    2023 in Focus - Economic analysis

    2023 is expected to be an exceptionally tough year for the UK economy. The country is almost certainly already in a year-long recession, one that will probably prove to be deeper than that experienced in the early 1990s. The squeeze on household real incomes will intensify as rising interest rates join soaring inflation. Admittedly, the [...]

  • Without Brexit, there would never have been a harsh austerity Budget this week, says BoE veteran

    Tough times ahead

    The real reason Britain is facing harsh austerity measures is the UK’s departure from the EU, according to a senior economist. Former Bank of England interest rate policy maker Michael Saunders said that Brexit has ‘permanently damaged’ the UK’s economy. “The UK economy as a whole has been permanently damaged by Brexit,” said Saunders, who [...]

  • MPs call for lower taxes as UK marks latest annual Tax Freedom Day since the early-1980s

    June 7, 2022

    MPs have called on the UK government to cut the burden on UK taxpayers after new figures showed working people spent a higher proportion of their incomes on taxes than at any other point since the early-1980s. The calls come after the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) published new figures, for Tax Freedom Day, showing UK [...]

  • Stephen Poloz on the volatility disrupting the global economy

    May 9, 2022  |  City Talk

    This article first appeared in ICAS’ CA magazine. The era of global volatility is demanding rigour and quick thinking from finance professionals. Stephen Poloz, former Governor of the Bank of Canada, charts a course through the noise. The title of Stephen Poloz’s book, The Next Age of Uncertainty, is a wink to a formative text in his [...]

  • Combination of Covid, Brexit and transition towards net-zero economy to end decades of declining ‘job churn’ in UK

    January 6, 2022

    Decades of declining “job churn”, which has meant fewer risks and opportunities for workers, is likely to be upended in the decade ahead as the combination of Covid-19, Brexit and the transition towards a net-zero economy brings about major changes in the UK economy, according to a new report. In fact, the view that robots [...]

  • From price inflation and Brexit rows to Evergrande and Biden v Putin: Here are the market risks to watch this year

    January 4, 2022

    The world is a pretty turbulent and unpredictable place at the moment, with Covid variants not making life easier. From tensions between Russia and the US over Ukraine’s NATO membership to Brexit conflicts and China’s Evergrande property scandal, 2022 is set to become everything but dull. So what developments and issues could disrupt or disturb [...]

  • Neglecting parts of the UK has led to ‘branch line’ economy, warns CBI chief

    November 22, 2021

    A leading business group warned this morning that parts of the UK have been neglected over decades, leading to a “branch line” economy. The CBI said delivering economic growth across the country will be the determining factor in whether the Government’s levelling up agenda will be a success. Director general Tony Danker said clusters of [...]

  • Collision of Covid-19 and Brexit fuels a £700bn blow to economic output

    May 11, 2021

    The UK economy has been forecast to suffer an over £700bn blow to output due to the collision of Covid-19 and Brexit, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned today. The bruising figure was made worse by the government’s “poor Covid-19 response”, the think tank said, adding that it has left the UK [...]

  • Govt should step back and let free markets drive pandemic recovery, says CPS

    February 24, 2021

    Centre for Policy Studies report argues for less government intervention by spending less.

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