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Civil servants must be resourced to begin full planning now, Institute for Government warns

Think tank's proposals would give departments a "minimum" of two years' worth of firm spending plans

Labour leader wants DGs to stay in post longer, Cummings claims Sunak offered him new No.10 role, and IfG calls for Spring Budget to be scrapped

Sunak aims to use Budget to push Opposition into revealing its proposals on borrowing

The Conservatives are planning to use the Budget to wrongfoot Sir Keir Starmer on borrowing in an attempt to show that, under Labour, Britain would go further into debt.

Chancellor in active discussions with PM, as Tories warned ‘voters won’t forget’ if rail project ditched

The Institute for Government said the Treasury’s unwillingness to share analysis undermined Government decision-making in response to the pandemic.

The Institute for Government said the Treasury’s unwillingness to share analysis undermined Government decision-making in response to the pandemic.

Ministers could face an additional £23bn price tag for covering extra household energy costs of £900 this autumn, rising to £90bn next year, a new paper by the Institute for Government has found. The paper, looking at the options for Liz Truss or...