Gemma Tetlow

IfG Chief Economist @gemmatetlow.bsky.social outlines that currently pension contributions make up around 20% of the total public sector remuneration package, compared to 8% in the private sector. Is this the most effective balance and does there need to be flexibility? #Lab25

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Should public sector pay and pensions be reformed?

Join us at #Lab25 at 15:45 to hear from @timleunig.bsky.social @fdagensec.bsky.social @fdaunion.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social, Paul Whiteman and @drbenpaxton.bsky.social - Clyde Room, ACC www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-la...

Join us at 15:45 at LPC to discuss how public sector pay and pensions might be reformed. With Dave Penman @fdaunion.bsky.social @timleunig.bsky.social @drbenpaxton.bsky.social and Paul Whiteman

...but no indication of which taxes might rise. Understandable that CX cannot pre-empt Budget announcements in conference speech but it does mean the biggest questions facing the CX were left unanswered today. Today's announcements (mainly details on youth guarantee) were small.

As trailed in the papers earlier, Reeves's speech did roll the pitch for tax rises in the Budget - pointing to 14 years of weak growth creating a fiscal problem and the foolhardiness of simply ignoring fiscal constraints (she said there was "nothing progressive" about that)...

Autumn budget 2025 | Institute for Government On Wednesday 26 November, Rachel Reeves will deliver her second budget as chancellor.

Follow our autumn budget 2025 page for more in the lead up to Reeves' second budget as chancellor on Weds 26 November www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/autumn-budge...

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The 2025 budget and beyond: How Rachel Reeves can approach tax reform to help drive growth | Institute for Government A big autumn approaches for the chancellor.

New @instituteforgovernment.org.uk report by me, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social and @jillongovt.bsky.social on how Reeves should approach tax this Autumn

With tax rises inevitable, Reeves should reject path of least resistance and embrace tax reform 1/3

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Great article from Meg Hillier, and a message more politicians need to hear. Pinning all responsibility for the UK's fiscal problems on the OBR is not only misguided, but risks damaging economic and fiscal credibility

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An image for an IfG event at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. How can industrial strategy drive growth? Monday 29 September | 09:00–10:00 Speakers: Pranesh Narayanan, Senior Research Fellow at IPPR Giles Wilkes, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government Amanda Wolthuizen, Vice President, Communications and Strategic Engagement and Chief of Staff to the President at Imperial College London This event will be chaired by Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government. This event is in partnership with Imperial College London.

How can the industrial strategy drive growth?

📆 Monday 29 Sept | 09:00–10:00

Join us at the Labour conference in Liverpool for our event with @praneshippr.bsky.social @gilesyb.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-la...

#LAB25 | Should public sector pay and pensions be reformed?

With Dave Penman @fdaunion.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @drbenpaxton.bsky.social

More speakers will be announced soon👁️‍🗨️

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The OBR is not to blame for weak growth When politicians attack independent institutions, we all lose

Very good piece from Meg Hillier on the dangers of political attacks on independent institutions like the OBR on.ft.com/3VV7p5Y The OBR is not to blame for weak growth

Opportunities: Resolution Foundation We're looking for exceptional candidates to join the Resolution Foundation team.

@resfoundation.bsky.social are recruiting for three new researcher/economist roles at various levels of seniority. Applications close 19 Sept. Exciting opportunity to join a great thinktank improving living standards for those on low-to-middle incomes www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/opp...

How can the government avoid a repeat of this year’s welfare reform debacle? | Institute for Government A change is needed in the government's use of fiscal forecasts.

How can the government avoid a repeat of this year’s welfare reform debacle? www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gove...

Lessons for the government’s 'revived' Pensions Commission | Institute for Government What can the new commission learn from its 2000s predecessor?

The original pensions commission is the single most effective independent inquiry of the last few decades. @jillongovt.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social and I have written on what the new pensions commission announced this week can learn from the original

Lessons for the government’s 'revived' Pensions Commission | Institute for Government What can the new commission learn from its 2000s predecessor?

What can the new Pensions Commission learn from its 2000s predecessor?

@jillongovt.bsky.social @njdavies.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social argue that the commission will need Treasury support to have as big an impact as the Turner Commission www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/new-...

The scandal and the superinjunction | Institute for Government The FT’s Lucy Fisher joins the podcast team to discuss who is to blame for the Afghan data leak.

PODCAST 🎤 The scandal and the superinjunction

@lucyfisher.ft.com joins @cathhaddon.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @alexgathomas.bsky.social to discuss the Afghan data leak and how the state reacts when mistakes are made.

Plus: Rachel Reeves' speech and voting reforms zurl.co/Hct1f

EVENT: Labour’s first year in power: is this still a mission-driven government?

Join our event with @instituteforgovernment.org.uk tomorrow at 10:30am chaired by @drhannahwhite.bsky.social with @helenmiller.bsky.social, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social & @stephenkb.bsky.social: ifs.org.uk/events/labou...

Labour’s first year: Keir Starmer’s government is less than the sum of its parts | Institute for Government Keir Starmer has yet to set out a clear governing philosophy.

Labour’s first year: Keir Starmer’s government is less than the sum of its parts

Keir Starmer has yet to set out a clear governing philosophy, says @drhannahwhite.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/labo...

Labour’s 10 Year Health Plan: familiar ideas could be frustrated by familiar problems | Institute for Government There is plenty of the what but less of the how in Wes Streeting’s new plan.

Great comment piece by Nick Timmins for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on the 10 Year Health Plan

He finds lots of familiar ideas but argues they could be frustrated by familiar problems. Like him, I really worry that plans to better integrate health service will be derailed by structural changes

Reeves has made big fiscal choices but left herself little room for manoeuvre | Institute for Government Having such little ‘headroom’ has left the chancellor at the mercy of events.

Reeves has made big fiscal choices but left herself little room for manoeuvre

Having such little ‘headroom’ has left the chancellor at the mercy of events, argues @gemmatetlow.bsky.social

Read more on fiscal policy making in the last year👇
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Hard to overstate how much goodwill the government has just managed to burn through with so many different groups — all in a totally unnecessary act of self-sabotage.

What choices did the government make in the 2025 spending review? Podcast Episode · Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · 11/06/2025 · Bonus · 49m

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Do listen back to our webinar, now available as a podcast! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... 7/7

Spending review 2025: Six key things we learned from Rachel Reeves' announcement | Institute for Government IfG experts set out the six things they learned from the spending review.

Our @instituteforgovernment.org.uk spending review analysis is out! Take a read here www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/spen...

Our key takeaways: 1/7

What choices did the government make in the 2025 spending review? | Institute for Government IfG experts provided instant analysis of what Rachel Reeves’s spending review means for public services, investment and the government’s missions.

If you missed our @instituteforgovernment.org.uk webinar this afternoon, with our take on the Spending Review, you can listen/watch back here www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/2025-s...

with @njdavies.bsky.social @drbenpaxton.bsky.social and @jillongovt.bsky.social

Interestingly MHCLG has specifically allocated a small amount of its projected efficiency gains to its plans to simplify the local government funding landscape

“The government’s new framework for public service reform – focussing on integration, prevention and devolution – is spot on. Combined with higher capital investment, this has the potential to be transformational over the long-term. In the short-term, promising new initiatives will need to be scaled up quickly to deliver meaningful benefits by the end of this parliament.” A quote from Nick Davies, IfG Programme Director.

"The government’s new framework for public service reform – focusing on integration, prevention and devolution – is spot on."

@njdavies.bsky.social reacts to the spending review and the govt's public service reform agenda.

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"This spending review has seen the government move from highlighting five missions to three priorities: security, health and the economy. While the six milestones set out last year have clearly helped guide spending allocations, they are less prominent in the government’s overarching strategy." A quote from Ben Paxton, Senior Research at the IfG.

What does the spending review reveal about Labour's missions?

@drbenpaxton.bsky.social says the six milestones set out last year are less prominent in the government’s overarching strategy.

Join our webinar with Ben and other IfG experts at 4pm www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/2025-s...