New Times,
New Thinking.

This is how Labour can fill the budget “black hole”

The IFS's senior research economist takes us through the numbers.


Ben Zaranko, senior research economist from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, takes us through the numbers ahead of next week’s budget, and the New Statesman’s political editor Andrew Marr takes us through the politics.


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