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The paper argues Britain’s tax system is overly complex and under‑performing, struggling to raise revenue amid two decades of weak growth and an ageing population, warning fiscal pressures will grow and calling for systemic reform.
Drawing on Spain’s experience of regional fiscal devolution, the analysis highlights practical lessons and pitfalls for the UK about revenue‑raising powers, asymmetric transfers and fiscal coordination between central and subnational governments.
Contends that the contraction of UK foreign aid has significant security implications and poses policy challenges and lessons for Keir Starmer and regional leaders such as Andy Burnham.
Argues UK state investment institutions underperform compared with European counterparts because outdated fiscal accounting rules constrain scale and effectiveness, limiting the government's ability to use public investment for strategic economic goals.
IPPR warns debt interest is on course to consume more than one in five pounds of government revenue by 2074–75, blaming long‑term pressures, markets and narrow fiscal rules, and calls for a careful fiscal framework review ahead of the next parliament.
IPPR argues the UK’s fiscal rules focus too narrowly on short‑term ‘headroom’ and have been repeatedly changed, calling for a return to first principles to define fiscal sustainability and redesign rules that better inform markets and citizens.
David Aikman explores whether Andy Burnham could front‑load a planned fiscal squeeze—using earlier consolidation—to reassure markets about compliance with a fiscal framework while potentially easing near‑term economic pressure.
NIESR outlines the economic challenges facing the new Chancellor ahead of the 28 October budget, arguing the government inherits difficult choices over fiscal constraints and devolution of money and powers to places.
Critiques nationalisation as a fiscal and efficiency problem, citing British Steel’s audited physical assets being deemed largely worthless and warning state ownership can act as a money sink rather than deliver long‑term investment or value.
The New Economics Foundation argues that Andy Burnham’s economic transformation requires altering the UK’s fiscal and monetary framework, warning that short-term cost-of-living measures alone will not deliver structural change.
Reflects on John Healey’s resignation as defence secretary and his argument that there are “credible ways” to address defence funding; notes he now controls departmental budgets and previously rejected proposals may be revisited.