Category: Institute for Fiscal Studies

NHS spending rise lags behind Tory funding pledges, IFS finds

Thinktank says extra funding eaten up by higher inflation despite greater demand with service in poor state of repairSpending on the NHS in England has risen less quickly than the Conservatives promised at the last election...

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Tory HQ resists calls to refer Menzies allegations to police – UK politics live

Internal investigation under way but party has not announced that police have been called inDuring questions in the Commons on next week’s business, Penny Mordaunt, leader of the house, said that MPs would debate the...

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Keir Starmer calls for police investigation into Mark Menzies allegations – UK politics live

Labour leader says there are ‘a lot of unanswered questions’ over allegations including why the Conservatives took so long to actDuring questions in the Commons on next week’s business, Penny Mordaunt, leader...

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Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – UK politics live

PM says ‘people trust me on these things’ and refuses to be drawn on whether government would forgo entire £46bn raised from measureKeir Starmer has accused Jeremy Hunt of repeating the budget mistakes made by...

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Hunt ‘repeating Truss’s errors with £46bn unfunded tax proposal’ to scrap national insurance, says Starmer – UK politics live

Labour leader claims Tories ‘have learned nothing’ from former PM’s mini-budgetKeir Starmer has accused Jeremy Hunt of repeating the budget mistakes made by Liz Truss during her disastrous premiership.In...

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NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS

Health spending in England to suffer 1.2% cut, worth £2bn, despite extra costs, thinktank’s analysis findsNHS funding faces the biggest cuts in real terms since the 1970s, an influential analysis shows, amid growing...

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Jeremy Hunt’s ‘dubious’ financial planning lacks credibility, says IFS

Chancellor should resist temptation to announce unfunded tax cuts in March budget, advises leading thinktankJeremy Hunt’s financial planning is “dubious” and “lacks credibility” and the chancellor...

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Starmer says Labour will ‘meet fire with fire’ if Tories resort to dirty tactics during election – UK politics live

Labour leader says Conservatives will ‘go low’ in election this year and Labour are prepared to match them if they doStarmer says being in opposition is frustrating, and he accuses the Tories of treating it as...

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