News More austerity, lower wages and why we should “all be worried” – IFS’ brutal verdict on Osborne’s Budget British people face a longer period of lower wages and reduced living standards as spending cuts continue beyond 2020,… Peter Edwards 17th March, 2016, 3:35 pm
News We must oppose the inheritance tax cut, says Kendall Labour must come out against the cuts to inheritance tax (IHT) outlined by George Osborne in last week’s… 14th July, 2015, 9:00 am
News SNP planning bigger spending cuts than Labour – and a cut to Scotland’s block grant, says IFS There’s some damning stuff for the SNP in the IFS reports on the various party manifestos. The faux-anti-austerity… 23rd April, 2015, 3:15 pm
News IFS says SNP manifesto would cost Scotland nearly £10 billion Labour have been hammering the SNP in recent weeks over their plans for “full fiscal autonomy” – which… 21st April, 2015, 3:14 pm
Video IFS chief warns of “enormous” scale of Tory cuts, with “almost no sense at all of how they’re going to do it” Yesterday the Tories were more than happy to draw attention to IFS analysis of Labour’s manifesto from Paul… 14th April, 2015, 1:42 pm
News Sturgeon wants full fiscal autonomy for Scotland as soon as possible – even though that would cost £7.6 billion Tonight’s second Scottish TV debate (which sadist scheduled them on consecutive nights?) threw up a very significant exchange… 8th April, 2015, 10:34 pm
Comment It’s time for the Tories to come clean on their secret £12billion plan to hit children, carers, families and disabled people David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith have repeatedly refused to explain how they would make the £12 billion cuts… Rachel Reeves 28th March, 2015, 7:01 pm
News Labour’s fiscal targets mean cuts could end next year Labour’s plans for deficit reduction could mean that spending cuts finish by 2016 – just as the Tories’… 19th March, 2015, 5:45 pm
News Will the IFS criticise the way Tories measure living standards? Yesterday during the Budget, George Osborne claimed that living standards are up from 2010 standards. Job done, he… 19th March, 2015, 12:22 pm
News Incomes on the rise, but not yet back to levels when Labour left office Incomes have returned to pre-recession levels, according to new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), but… 4th March, 2015, 11:01 am