The new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, promised to be a tax-cutting Prime Minister. She has kept her promise. The “mini-budget” announced by the new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, will introduce some of the biggest tax cuts in a generation. Yet, the caveat…
Over the coming months, Backbench will be partnering with Torrin Wilkins, Director of Centre Think Tank for a series of comment pieces. In his column, Torrin will explore prominent policy issues – some of them related to the latest news…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak released the fiscal budget for the next year last week, and whilst the funding is scarce for the country, the Tories still seem to be protecting their fellow members of the patriarchal elite. It almost seems predictable…
Today’s impending budget represents a litmus test for Keir Starmer. Decades of neoliberal orthodoxies have evaporated over a year, with a Conservative government using unprecedented powers of the state to safeguard health and economic well-being. The normal boundaries of political…