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Thinktank says government and Bank of England need to take more joined-up approach to solving economic problems

EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak needs to reform the Bank of England so it is better able to tackle Britains economic woes, experts have suggested.

EXCLUSIVE: Britains gross national debt reached £2.5trillion pounds at the end of last year with economists warning the UKs debt to GDP ratio has never been as high in peacetime.

Just exactly what kind of problem is ‘democratic backsliding? Is it a truly global phenomenon, and what is causing it? Where does correlation end and causation begin? In a recent working paper, Tom Carothers and Benjamin Press of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ask the right questions, and settle on the vital role of ‘countervailing institutions’ – the checks

Thinktank says 2010-2019 spending would have been £540bn higher had previous plans been stuck to

How did a £70bn “hole” become a £30bn “surplus”? The answer is that we’re doing economic policy wrong.

The government’s own arbitrary target is the source of this ‘shortfall’, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The party should enter the debate over the Autumn Statement prepared to fight and win an ideological battle.

In British capitalist society, vast amounts of wealth and income are held by a rich or well-off minority, much more than is needed to repair the NHS and pay workers wage and benefit increases matching inflation. In round figures, Britain’s 32.6 million workforce produces £2.2 trillion (thousand billion) of output each year, or £67,000 per person.

The chancellor insists Britain has to ‘live within its means’ – but many economists say painful cuts are neither inevitable nor proven to work