Resolution Foundation Podcast

The Treasury promised us a boring non-event, which on the day was massively over-shadowed by events in the Middle East anyway. Ruth Curtice discusses the merits of annual fiscal events, the difficulty of getting growth going, and what to expect in the Chancellor's upcoming (and unprecedented) *second* Mais Lecture, with James Smith (Chief Economist at the Resolution Foundation) and Giles Wilkes (Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government). 

Read Understatement of the year on our website today, for the full detail of our Spring Forecast response.

 

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The Government came into office promising to tackle policy uncertainty by limiting major fiscal events to one a year. They failed to deliver this last year, but are determined to deliver a ‘policy free’ Spring Forecast next week. Have they achieved greater policy certainty, or been scuppered by the cost of policy U-turns, public service pressures, major changes in the UK economic outlook, or problems that need fixing before the Autumn Budget?

 

Speakers

David Miles
Member of the Budget Responsibility Committee at the OBR

Dharshini David
BBC’s Deputy Economics Editor

James Smith
Chief Economist at the Resolution Foundation

Ruth Curtice
Chief Executive at the Resolution Foundation

Catch up on a recording of our recent event discussing the outlook ahead of the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.

The Autumn Budget was barely three months ago, but the UK has experienced plenty of economic and political drama since then. In the short time between OBR forecasts, there have been encouraging signs on the public finances and the outlook for inflation. But growth remains sluggish and uncertainty elevated amid rising geopolitical tensions. There are some signs of productivity ‘green shoots’, but the risk is they are indicative of higher unemployment.

 

Speakers

Karen Ward - Managing Director at JPMorgan Asset Management

Yael Selfin - Vice Chair and Chief Economist KPMG in the UK

Andy King - Specialist Partner at Flint Global

James Smith - Chief Economist at the Resolution Foundation

Ruth Curtice - Chief Executive at the Resolution Foundation (Chair)

Britain does not feel like a nation at ease – and hasn’t done for a very long while. By more than two-to-one, Britons last year judged the country to be on the “wrong track” rather than heading in the “right direction”. Ruth Curtice, the Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, discusses the experiences and prospects for the nation's poorer half with Scarlett Maguire and Tom Clark.

The Resolution Foundation has documented two decades of UK economic underperformance and stagnant living standards.

 

18 months into a government elected on a mandate of change and growth, and following the publication of Mountain climbing, we're assessing their growth strategy – its intentions, its achievements, and its prospects moving ahead into an uncertain world. Lord David Willetts, the President of the Resolution Foundation, is joined by Sophie Hale, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, and Anna Leach, Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors.