UNBELIEVABLE: Institute for fiscal studies - The Untold Story

Healey insists welfare bill will come down under Labour but warns: ‘We never set a timetable for savings’

The Chancellor delayed major changes to welfare until 2027 in his first Budget this week

The Independent UK · Nov 1

The measure slipped into UK budget that could protect spending on children, youth and rough sleeping

PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition

The Guardian - UK · Nov 1

John Healey promises benefits bill ‘will come down under Labour’

The Chancellor insisted he set out the timetable for changing the welfare system but never set out the timetable for savings.

Evening Standard · Nov 1

The ‘breathing space budget’ – breathing space for the government, that is

John Healey aced the morning-after media round because his Martin Lewis measures left nothing to challenge him on

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29

Healey’s budget paves way for ‘brutal’ spending review next year, warns IFS

Thinktank says chancellor has given himself a mountain to climb after ducking big decisions in low-key speech

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29

Healey’s ‘risky’ Budget criticised for failing to tackle worst decade for UK growth on record

The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies warns that ‘no amount of temporary cost of living packages’ will fix the lack of household income growth, in a damning indictment of Andy Burnham’s approach to government

The Independent UK · Oct 29

Healey warns of more ‘hard decisions’ and departmental spending cuts

The Chancellor said Cabinet colleagues would have to exert more ‘fiscal discipline’ going into next year’s spending review.

Evening Standard · Oct 29

UK politics: Burnham denies preventing ministers from speaking about plans for closer relationship with EU – as it happened

Prime minister wrote to ministers saying he did not want them to ‘advocate for specific options or opine on the likely outcome of the process’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29

‘Budget is bold enough’ despite limited ‘room for manoeuvre’, Andy Burnham says

The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said the Budget’s ‘raft of fiddly measures’ would do little to boost growth.

Evening Standard · Oct 29

Budget 2026: Healey hikes taxes on banks and landlords to fund £100 handouts to 20m households

Few surprises as chancellor uses low-key speech blaming ‘global economic storms’ for stoking energy prices and cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28