“Britain has a social care crisis,” says the headline above Wes Streeting’s latest piece in the Guardian. “Here’s how Labour plans to fix it.” And how does Labour plan to fix it? Why, by “announcing an independent commission on building a National Care Service” of course. Crossbench peer Louise Casey has agreed to chair the […]| The Policy Sketchbook
We are two months in and, as far as NHS reform goes, the new government is still in a stage of political positioning and information gathering. Lord Darzi’s report, published yesterday, tells us that the NHS is in a bad state. Everything is worse than it was in 2010: waiting lists have soared, cancer outcomes […]| The Policy Sketchbook
It is an old cliché that people in the UK want European levels of public services for US levels of taxation – even if the last government achieved closer to US levels of public services for European levels of taxation. And maybe there is nothing wrong with this: any economist will tell you that a […]| The Policy Sketchbook
Rob Calvert Jump and Jo Michell Just over a year ago, ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s first Autumn Statement, we published a report on how UK public finances are managed and discussed. At the time, th…| Critical Macro Finance
We are entering fiscal silly season. As the budget approaches, we should brace for impact with breathless reporting of context-free statistics about inflation, interest rates and government debt. T…| Critical Macro Finance
