Paul Johnson
PJTheEconomist
Our analysis of Scottish manifestos out today https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/15412Strikingly big promises from the main parties, without any serious attempt to provide costings or to say how they would be paid for.
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All that extra money announced by govt last week not quite what it seems. https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14938The "Rooseveltian" additional £5.5bn of capital spending represents an increase of precisely zero this year on
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What follows are the six new choices it immediately seems to me government will need to make once this is over. We'll be in a completely new economic world. (Me
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Some thoughts from our manifesto analysis. First just look at the scale of differences in tax and spending proposals. The Conservative manifesto offered almost nothing, Labour would try to implement
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