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What will be in Jeremy Hunt's spring budget 2024?
The Expert Factor team look ahead to a big day in the Westminster calendar and a hugely significant moment for the country.
What do we really know about Keir Starmer?
Tom Baldwin joins the Inside Briefing team to discuss what his new biography of the Labour leader tells us about the man who wants to be the next PM.
Strengthening the UK’s fiscal framework
The UK’s fiscal framework, including a flawed set of rules, incentivises bad policy decisions shaped by short-termism and fictional spending plans.
How the OBR can help people understand the implications of government’s stated spending plans
Official forecasts built on implausible spending plans undermine fiscal policy debate.
Preparing for Power – Episode 4: The governing party
Oliver Letwin, Harriet Harman, Gus O'Donnell and Nick Macpherson reveal how they approached the work of government during an election campaign.
Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rows highlight the power of parties over political discourse
The Lee Anderson furore is unlikely to be the last of its kind in a general election year.
Rebuilding trust in public life
The next government should start the difficult process of showing the British public that the institutions on which we all rely can be trusted.
The Hoyle crisis
ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill joins the podcast team to make sense of the Gaza debate and to weigh up how much trouble Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is in.
Fiscal fantasies reveal deep problems in the UK's fiscal framework
A flawed set of loose fiscal rules are no substitute for a fiscal strategy.
David Neal’s sacking shows why independent inspectors need more powers
Independent inspectors need the right to publish independently of those they scrutinise.