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Can Rachel Reeves avoid a fiscal meltdown?

Thursday 4 September 2025

As borrowing costs soar and the pound falters, Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces mounting pressure to stabilise the UK’s public finances. Difficulties include limited room for tax rises, sluggish growth and stubborn inflation.

Our Professorial Research Fellow, Professor Iain Begg, writes that the government must confront hard choices on debt, welfare and investment, before markets lose confidence.

Iain Begg
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