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Jonathan Portes

The Guardian

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Kemi Badenoch says the Tories got it wrong on immigration. She’s right – but not for the reasons she thinks

Yesterday Kemi Badenoch said the Conservative government “got it wrong” on immigration, and promised a “strict numerical cap”. We’ve been...

28.11.2024 7

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Jonathan Portes

Rachel Reeves’s first budget offers a chance to break out of the doom loop. Here’s how she should do it

Four years of economic turmoil. High inflation, then high interest rates, then an (albeit mild) recession. A pre-election budget with some distinctly...

28.10.2024 7

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Jonathan Portes

Rachel Reeves is pulling off a transparent political manoeuvre. But she’s not entirely wrong

Is Rachel Reeves’s claim that, since arriving at the Treasury just three weeks ago, she has discovered large, unfunded liabilities in the public...

29.07.2024 20

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Jonathan Portes

Amid the Tories’ fiscal disasters, one change has quietly warped how we see public spending for ever

The Treasury traces its origins back to the early 12th century. The Bank of England was established in 1694. But when Liz Truss blamed her downfall on...

12.06.2024 3

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Jonathan Portes

Are international students taking over UK universities? No – in fact, they’re propping them up

Since 2010, the number of international students in the UK has increased by up to 70%, while entry to the most competitive universities has become...

31.01.2024 10

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Jonathan Portes

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