Gemma Tetlow
Chief Economist
Gemma's recent work
Rishi Sunak’s higher defence spending announcement does not add up
The prime minister should not be allowed to abdicate decisions about how to pay for his spending pledges.
Four things we learned from Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture
What is the shadow chancellor’s vision for the economy?
The Treasury needs to engage earlier and more widely on tax reform
Jeremy Hunt's budget was not a case study in good tax policy making.
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HS2: lessons for future infrastructure projects
How government can ensure future infrastructure spending is money well spent – and where ministers can learn from the mistakes of the HS2 project.
Rishi Sunak's budget reverses the policies of George Osborne
The chancellor has taken a gamble by offering little to help with cost of living pressures this winter
Performance Tracker 2021
The pandemic has created huge backlogs in public services – failing to address these backlogs now will push up costs in future.
The four IfG takeaways from the Labour Party Conference
The IfG team headed to Labour's party's conference in Brighton to find out what type of government Keir Starmer wants to lead
Currency options for an independent Scotland
Any currency choice for a newly independent Scotland would require its government to bring borrowing down to a sustainable level.
Tax and spending questions facing the government in autumn 2021
Numerous spending pressures on government mean Rishi Sunak will face a difficult balancing act this autumn.
If Boris Johnson is serious about ‘levelling up’, he needs to define what it means
"Levelling up" has been a useful slogan that can mean all things to all people
The fiscal position of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Breaking away from the UK would leave Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland facing sizeable fiscal deficits.
The chancellor has missed opportunities to lay the ground for tax reform
Rishi Sunak failed to use the budget or the government’s new ‘tax day’ to set out a coherent vision for the tax system
Covid has exposed a need to return to ‘something for something’
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted gaps in the UK’s social security system