Chapeau to the IEA’s Emily Carver for firing back at Angela Eagle just now on Politics Live. Eagle doesn’t seem to realise the IEA opposed Liz’s energy price cap policy, and Carver herself didn’t support Truss in the first place. Eagle also can’t seem to explain how Labour balance the books differently. “Get your facts right…”
Tonight Live with Littlewood be asking:
Tonight on the IEA’s YouTube Channel, Emily Carver, Mark Littlewood and Professor Len Shackleton will discuss the shape of the UK labour market and how government can boost employment once the Covid crisis has passed.
How do we restore and enhance the conditions under which job creation can be maximised? What radical rethinking of employment law could lessen Covid’s impact on jobs?
All this and more – TONIGHT at 6PM to 6:35PM – WATCH HERE or on YouTube.
Should tax rates be hiked to pay for the monumental spending on the pandemic?
Or would an increased tax burden choke an already beleaguered private sector – and stifle any meaningful economic recovery?
In the latest Definite Article from the IEA, Director General Mark Littlewood maps out the new divide between fiscal hawks and tax doves.
Whilst Treasury hawks look to tax rises to mitigate the colossal cost of coping with coronavirus, the doves argue for a go-for-growth strategy from Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
Are the hawks being too short-sighted? Have the doves underestimated the scale of the fiscal challenge ahead? And if the short term financial picture is dire, is the longer-term picture even more calamitous?
So who will win this new economic war? Hawks or doves?
JOIN THE DEBATE – as Mark and IEA Economics Fellow Julian Jessop are interviewed by Media Manager Emily Carver – LIVE at 6pm
Join in the debate – LIVE at 6 – here or on YouTube.
