LABOUR have been urged to heed a former chief economist of the Bank of England who warned that there was only a “lettuce leaf” between their…
LABOUR have been urged to heed a former chief economist of the Bank of England who warned that there was only a “lettuce leaf” between their plans and theAndy Haldane, who left the Bank of England in 2021 and is now the chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts, said that both the Tory andIn an article for the Financial Times , Haldane, who sat on the UK Government’s Economic Advisory Council until it was dissolved by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in late 2023, said there were four options facing...
Haldane said that it was likely that Labour would see the “UK’s fiscal rules are junked post-election”, which he argued would be a positive as “existing fiscal rules risk starving the economy of the very investment needed”.He said: “This analysis from the Bank Of England’s former chief economist is just the latest warning that there is barely a cigarette paper, or indeed a 'lettuce leaf', between Tory and Labour economic policies.
In a phrase referenced by Haldane in his FT article, IFS director Paul Johnson said Labour and the Tories are engaged in a “conspiracy of silence” over the fact that both party’s plans “do involve cuts both to investment spending and to spending on unprotected public services”.
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