Gary Gibbon
Is Ed Miliband’s fiscal responsibility promise just a Houdini lock?
Labour proclaims a “fiscal responsibility lock” in its manifesto – but the IFS says his rules are so vague as to give him a lot of wriggle room.
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IFS questions Tory and Labour manifestos
The think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said both the Conservatives and the Labour Party aren’t being honest about the economic consequences of their manifesto proposals. It didn’t look at the manifestos of the Lib Dems, Ukip and other parties. The IFS warned that the Tories’ pledges to boost NHS spending may well be…
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FactCheck: which party is running the biggest truth deficit?
The IFS has scathing words for all the biggest parties as it accuses them of not being straight with voters over spending plans.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband courts business, David Cameron gets personal
Ed Miliband kicked off the first day of the election campaign by launching Labour’s business manifesto, while David Cameron laid into the opposition leader on the doorstep of No.10.
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FactCheck: are you richer or poorer than five years ago?
Labour says people are £1,600 worse off under the coalition. George Osborne says we will be £900 better off. Who’s right?
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FactCheck: dodgy election claims galore
It’s a new year, but old habits die hard for the spinners trading dodgy claims as the election battle begins in earnest.
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Gary Gibbon
Budget 2014
This is a fiscally neutral budget of slight readjustments, rather than a major economic moment.
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Gary Gibbon
‘Heavy hint’ from Treasury: tax rises will come
Have Treasury civil servants been sending coded warnings that public sector cuts might be getting out of hand? The IFS thinks so, blogs Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Faisal Islam
Big Squeeze ‘coming to an end’ says BoE governor
The poverty projections released by the IFS and the Joseph Rowntree Trust today are pretty shocking. They are well-covered elsewhere. I would point to two things. One in four children are set to be living in absolute poverty by 2020. The Coalition inherited about one in six children in absolute poverty. the Government’s target under…
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Gary Gibbon
IFS forecasts: mummified economy?
Surrounded by death masks and shrouds, the IFS is giving its economic forecasts on the bowels of the British Museum. They are marginally but significantly gloomier than the OBR. blogs Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Faisal Islam
Difficult promises on poverty for the coalition
Faisal Islam blogs on the difficulties the coalition government faces with tackling poverty.
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Faisal Islam
EMA costs ‘more than recouped’ says IFS
Initially I have to confess that I had presumed that the Educational Maintenance Allowance must be a £30 a week bribe likely to be used to download X factor music for near-feral youths. Probably to play through loudspeakers and annoy me on my local bus.
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Gary Gibbon
Spending review: IFS examines the ‘regressive’ cuts
The Institute for Fiscal Studies examines whether George Osborne’s spending cuts are progressive or regressive.
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Faisal Islam
Budget: time to admit poorest hit hardest?
Whichever way you skin it, this budget is regressive and will hurt the poorest more, Faisal Islam writes.
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Faisal Islam
IFS Budget analysis means it is time for transparency
‘Clearly regressive’ are two words that will be sending shivers down the spines of the Coalition ministers. For the first time the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has completed a comprehensive analysis of who will pay for the Budget measures announced in June, known as a distributional analysis in the jargon.
