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Where is Rishi Sunak’s plan for growing the economy?
Giles Wilkes warns that the chancellor’s ideological ambiguity may also reveal a lack of clear thinking on how to create economic growth
Brexit fish rows are a taste of things to come
Bust-ups of this kind risk defining the post-Brexit EU-UK relationship
HS2: lessons for future infrastructure projects
How government can ensure future infrastructure spending is money well spent – and where ministers can learn from the mistakes of the HS2 project.
Disputes under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement
The UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement has a mechanism for settling disputes. But how does it work?
Budget 2021: Universal Credit winners and losers
Nicholas Timmins reflects on who benefits – and who loses out – from the controversial cuts to Universal Credit
Civil service cuts should be informed by proper workforce planning
Rhys Clyne says that the government should work out the skills and experience it need from the civil service
Rishi Sunak’s budget does not meet the post-Covid education challenge
Sam Freedman warns that the pandemic's impact on children is not being properly addressed
Rishi Sunak's budget reverses the policies of George Osborne
The chancellor has taken a gamble by offering little to help with cost of living pressures this winter
Five things we learnt from the October 2021 budget
Before the budget, we set out five things that the Institute for Government was looking out for in the chancellor’s announcement.
The heat and buildings strategy shows the government is grappling with the right problems
The government's long-awaited plan to decarbonise homes is big on heat pumps but curiously silent on energy efficiency