'Politics in the UK is now well into the pre-election campaign. Unless events intervene, Tony Blair is expected to call a general election in May or June 2001. And the central issue is already clear. It is taxation and public spending. As Labour and the Conservatives draw up their election manifestos there has been some convergence between them on this issue over recent months. Labour is committed to a major programme of public spending increases, but at the same time its March Budget implemented a series of tax cuts to families with children, pensioners and others. (The UK's public accounts are in substantial surplus at the moment.) The Conservatives have promised further tax cuts of 8 billion over five years, but have also committed thems...
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A short article that reflects on the results of the 2017 general election and the role of ideas abou...
This paper takes as its starting point Henry Neuburger's injunction that taxation must be seen as a ...
One of the most conspicuous European policy legacies of the Blair premiership pertains to its public...
When Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy observed last week that Scotland could fund 1000 additional n...
The election of the Conservative-Liberal coalition in May 2010 provides the opportunity to start to ...
Significant tax reform requires leadership, courage and determination on the part of politicians. It...
On 16 March 1992, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John Smith arrived at the Institute of Civil Engineers ...
Preamble: This paper is presented and published in order to stimulate debate – and have feedback- on...
The general elections in May 2015 took place against a fair, but mixed economic background. After th...
Voters do not mind taxes that have a specific purpose, according to Michael Jacobs and David Hayward...
'The British Labour Party approaches an early summer election with an apparently impregnable lead in...
'The battle over British membership of the Euro is also increasingly colouring attitudes towards the...
As the UK experiences an increasingly gloomy economic outlook, the new government under Prime Minist...
In May 1997 the British Labour Party swept into power with a majority which exceeded all expectation...
The new Labour government elected on May 1 1997 came to power on the basis of a manifesto that commi...
A short article that reflects on the results of the 2017 general election and the role of ideas abou...
This paper takes as its starting point Henry Neuburger's injunction that taxation must be seen as a ...
One of the most conspicuous European policy legacies of the Blair premiership pertains to its public...