Improving schools is first challenge for new first minister, Vaughan Gething, as IFS study shows lower attainment is not due to poverty Wales’s new first …
Health spending in England to suffer 1.2% cut, worth £2bn, despite extra costs, thinktank’s analysis finds NHS funding faces the biggest cuts in real terms …
Thinktank says Tories have overseen the biggest increase in taxes during a parliament since records began in 1951 UK households are facing an average tax …
Tougher rules have boosted employment but jobs offer scant career progression and contribute little to tax revenue Tougher benefit rules have boosted employment in the …
UK has scored ‘a series of economic own goals’, Institute for Fiscal Studies says after autumn statement Autumn statement: key points at a glanceAutumn statement …
Latest updates: Deputy PM says she is not going to get into hypotheticals when challenged over potential spending cuts Thérèse Coffey, the health secretary and …
Chancellor must top up budgets or face industrial action and further recruitment issues, thinktank warns More than 100,000 public sector workers would lose their jobs …
For every £1 given workers by cutting tax rates £2 was being taken via freeze on income tax thresholds, thinktank calculates Millions of households are …
Ahead of mini-budget, concerns mount over precarious financial position sparking run on sterling Britain’s mounting debts will be unsustainable if the government presses ahead with …
Leading economist says Liz Truss’s plans to freeze energy bills will benefit affluent people more than the less well-off On the energy front: the Russian …
Severe cuts to services feared as rising costs absorb a big chunk of increased departmental spending The government will need to spend an extra £44bn …
Austerity-era policies meant poverty among larger families in poverty rose at significantly faster rate, says thinktank Benefit cuts imposed by the Conservatives since 2010 pushed …
Spending down 14% in real terms at most disadvantaged secondaries, compared with 9% at least deprived Cuts to education spending in England over the last …
Research comes as government details measures that compel universities to do more to help graduates Well-known universities, including Exeter, Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge, were found …