Category: Pre-budget report

IFS: budget will be ‘work of fiction’ without clear plan to cover UK’s £35bn spending pressures

by The Guardian | Oct 12, 2026 | Budget, Budget 2026, Budget deficit, Business, Defence policy, Economic growth (GDP), Economic policy, Economics, Government borrowing, Institute for Fiscal Studies, John Healey, Politics, Pre-budget report, Public finance, Tax and spending, The Guardian, Thinktanks, UK news | 0 |

Thinktank’s influential pre-budget report urges key decisions to be made now and not put off until next yearJohn Healey has been warned by Britain’s leading tax and spending experts that his budget risks being a “work of...

Category: Pre-budget report

IFS: budget will be ‘work of fiction’ without clear plan to cover UK’s £35bn spending pressures

IFS: budget will be ‘work of fiction’ without clear plan to cover UK spending pressures