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Rishi Sunak’s pivot to tax cuts reveals No10’s search for an economic argument
The prime minister’s speech sets out five new economic promises – and has shifted the discussion about tax cuts.
Autumn statement frenzy shows why we should only have one fiscal event a year
Jeremy Hunt should hold on to his reputation for economic competence.
Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle should be the last big one before the election
A period of stability in the government ranks is needed.
Whips: what is their role?
Whips are MPs and peers affiliated to a political party appointed to ensure their party colleagues vote according to the leader’s agenda.
Government whipping is about more than the dark arts nowadays
The IfG has spoken to former whips about what the job actually involves.
What can we expect from the autumn statement?
The Expert Factor team preview Wednesday’s big event in parliament and ask what difference the autumn statement might make.
Sunak's flights of fantasy?
Francis Elliott, editor of the House Magazine, joins the podcast to run the rule over the reshuffle and weigh up Sunak's Rwanda scheme.
The Supreme Court’s Rwanda verdict and Rishi Sunak’s response: what happens next?
Will the government’s new Rwanda asylum policy plan work?
Rishi Sunak backed himself into a corner with the Rwanda plan – as Suella Braverman warned
Once the dust settles on the Supreme Court’s ruling, Sunak should focus on what asylum policy might actually work instead.
Rishi Sunak has lost the man who would implement Lord Maude’s government reforms
New Cabinet Office minister John Glen should build on his predecessor Jeremy Quin’s approach to government reform.