Gary Gibbon
Minimum wage upgrade does not offset benefit cuts
The Institute for Fiscal Studies finds it is undoubtedly the case that tax credit recipients in work will on average be worse off as a result of the budget changes
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FactCheck: the new education secretary is wrong about schools funding
Damian Hinds made three claims about schools funding in parliament on Monday. Two of them are wrong, according to independent experts.
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Gary Gibbon
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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
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: are you worse off under David Cameron?
Have living standards really bounced back to their pre-crash levels? Or are we losing thousands of pounds a year, as Ed Miliband says?
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FactCheck: how much has the coalition cost you?
Are you out of pocket thanks to coalition policies? And would it have been any different under a Labour government?
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FactCheck: the private school premium
Went to a state school? Then you can expect to earn thousands less than a privately-educated colleague with the same qualifications.
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FactCheck: Conservative claims on rising living standards
The Conservative government responds to Labour claims that wages have fallen in real terms under David Cameron – FactCheck explores which party is right.
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FactCheck: Cameron’s 81p tax giveaway
Is the Prime Minister right that 24 million people will be better off by £6.50 thanks to the change in personal tax allowance thresholds? FactCheck begs to differ.
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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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Spending Review: the IFS verdict
A round-up of three of the claims the Chancellor made that the Institute for Fiscal Studies takes issue with.
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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.
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Faisal Islam
Nightmare verdict on ‘unavoidable’ budget
“Somewhat regressive” were the words that the coalition, particularly the yellow half, really would not have wanted to hear from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), writes economics editor Faisal Islam.
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Faisal Islam
IFS warns of sharpest cuts since Second World War
So there we have it. Clarity, honesty, and candour on Day 22 of the election campaign. Not at any of the party political press conferences. No, it’s been left to the trusty holders of the spending shield of truth: the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
