Dan Haile
Senior Economist
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Managing the economic consequences of the Iran war
How should the government respond to the crisis in the Middle East?
Energy resilience
The Middle East crisis has put energy resilience back on the agenda.
Domestic energy bills
Rising bills have the biggest impact on lower-income households since price rises. So what is the government doing to lower energy bills?
Energy price cap
Amid soaring energy bills, we explain what the Ofgem price cap is and how it's calculated.
Four things we learnt from Rachel Reeves’s spring forecast 2026
The chancellor’s spring forecast was short and free of new policy content.
Will Rachel Reeves’s 2026 spring forecast be as low key as promised?
The government is right to approach 3 March as a fiscal ‘non-event’.
Tariffs, trade and Trump
What tariffs has Donald Trump announced – and what do they mean for the UK?
Five things we learned at the IfG's Government 2026 conference
What lies in store for government in 2026?
Autumn budget 2025: What did we learn from Rachel Reeves’ announcements?
IfG experts review the key things we learnt from the 2025 budget.
How does the Office for Budget Responsibility produce economic and fiscal forecasts?
Economic and fiscal forecasts are a critical part of the government budget process. But what data and assumptions go into them?