On Monday, the Conservatives announced their medium-term expenditure strategy. This provided some details of how they would fulfil leader Michael Howard's belief that 'the people should be big and the state should be small'.
Authors
Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, an expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Sarah Love
Comment details
- DOI
- 10.1920/co.ifs.2024.1084
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Emmerson, C and Love, S. (2004). Rolling back the state? [Comment] IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/rolling-back-state (accessed: 4 December 2024).
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