The PM is right to reform the pensions triple lock.

The PM is right to reform the pensions triple lock.

The UK’s fiscal framework, including a flawed set of rules, incentivises bad policy decisions shaped by short-termism and fictional spending plans.

Personalising benefits and support is key to helping disabled people into work.

Tom Pope, the IfG’s Manchester correspondent, is optimistic about the future of UK politics’ self-styled second city

The chancellor should take difficult decisions at the budget rather than ducking tough choices.

The chancellor should take difficult decisions at the budget rather than ducking tough choices.

The chancellor should take difficult decisions at the budget rather than ducking tough choices.

The chancellor should take difficult decisions at the budget rather than ducking tough choices.

Labour should reset an unfair and inefficient system

If mayors use the ‘right to request’ to call for tourist taxes, then the government should say yes.

The 2026 UK budget is fast approaching.

The government has asked departments to show how they can support its new procurement reforms.

debates over tax rebates are fiscal policy, but also the political differences that greater devolution will create — and what they mean for the relationship between Whitehall and strategic authorities

debates over tax rebates are fiscal policy, but also the political differences that greater devolution will create — and what they mean for the relationship between Whitehall and strategic authorities

Changes on tax, new powers and institutions show Burnham means business.

We evaluate devolution to England’s cities and regions, and make the case for a more coherent approach to English subnational government.