We’re look at some of the challenges facing the Chancellor and what she can learn from previous Budgets.
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In our first ever live episode, we're going to look at how Rachel Reeves can make her first Budget a success.
It will have been 117 days since Labour took power before we finally hear what is in the Budget - in that time we’ve heard about £22bn 'black holes' and the difficult economic situation the UK faces. We’re going to think a bit about some of the challenges facing the Chancellor, what she can learn from previous Budgets and how she can navigate these complexities.
Paul is joined by colleague Helen Miller, Deputy Director at IFS, Lord Stewart Wood, a Labour peer and former member under Tony Blair’s government of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Council of Economic Advisers, and Stephen Bush, associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times.
Host
Director
Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
Participants
Columnist and Associate Editor Financial Times
Visiting Fellow Blavatnik School of Government
Podcast details
- DOI
- 10.1920/pd.ifs.2024.0029
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
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