The Briefing Room - How much trouble is the UK economy in?

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Last month the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, warned that "things would get worse before they got better". The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already said that there's a £22 billion black hole in the government's finances left by the Conservatives. The budget at the end of October, we're told, will be "painful". But just how bad a state is the UK economy really in? And how constrained is the new government by manifesto promises it made not to raise the main taxes on working people?

Guests:

Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Mehreen Khan, Economics editor at The TImes
Chris Giles, Economics Commentator at The Financial TImes

Presenter: David Aaronovitch
Producers: Ben Carter, Caroline Bayley and Kirsteen Knight
Sound engineers: Sarah Hockley and Gareth Jones
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman

Published on Thursday, 5th September 2024.

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