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Over the next few weeks, we’re bringing you a series of briefings looking at key areas of government and analysing how they have performed over recent years, what challenges they face and which solutions are on the table.
This week we'll start with the NHS - the UK's biggest public service.
We're joined by Ben Zaranko and Max Warner, IFS experts, to discuss the big challenges facing the NHS, and what Labour will do about them.
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In the recent budget, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced a £40 billion tax increase, pushing tax as a share of national income to an all time UK high.
Just 6% of that came from an increase in inheritance tax, and just a small fraction of that will come from farmers. And yet it is the tax...
Published 11/15/24
At the end of October, the ONS announced that the fertility rate in England and Wales had fallen to 1.44 births per woman in 2023 - the lowest figure since records began in 1938.
What will this mean for the population make-up of the country? What other big demographic shifts are occurring? Why...
Published 11/08/24