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Thomas Pope
Deputy Chief Economist
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Capital spending in public services
Crumbling schools, hospitals and prisons need a new capital spending plan to turn performance around.
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Funding local growth in England
The next government must end "begging bowl culture" of local growth funding.
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How the next government should complete the job of English devolution
The next government must extend devolution to 85% of England to deliver meaningful and balanced economic growth.
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Where next for levelling up?
This short paper highlights five key challenges that any government seeking to reduce regional inequalities will need to address.
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A Labour government would need to take big decisions to deliver on its devolution agenda
Do Keir Starmer’s and Angela Rayner’s devolution plans add up?
All work
Bring forward funding to ease Covid disruption in public services
Thomas Pope argues that it not just the NHS that should have its funding frontloaded in the spending review
How would an independent Scotland borrow?
The steps an independent Scotland could take to reassure investors and limit increases in debt interest costs.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
The furlough scheme risks providing poor value for money and should end as planned at the end of September – even if it is still supporting many jobs.
Tax and spending questions facing the government in autumn 2021
Numerous spending pressures on government mean Rishi Sunak will face a difficult balancing act this autumn.
Now is the right time to phase out the furlough scheme
Thomas Pope says it is the right time to remove this economy-wide support
The subsidy control bill does not guarantee post-Brexit state aid success
Thomas Pope says the success of the UK’s system for regulating state subsidies is far from certain
Biden’s corporate tax reforms are welcome – but their impact remains uncertain
Discussions at October’s G20 and beyond will determine how radical the effects of President Biden’s ‘minimum tax’ proposals actually are
Taking back control of subsidies
A UK state aid regime needs rules and a strong regulator to avoid wasting taxpayer money and protect competition within the UK internal market.
Taking stock of the Conservative manifesto
The government is yet to deliver around half of its 2019 manifesto promises – and many of those it has made progress on are the ‘easy wins’.
One month of data offers few clues about the longer-term impact of Brexit on trade
Trade flows between the UK and the EU fell sharply in the first month the UK spent outside the single market