Budget 2026 - Conservatives and think tanks give their reaction to Healey's debut

Budget slammed as ‘scattergun’ by think tank formerly run by Treasury minister

The Resolution Foundation says the Budget will do little to address ‘the sharp challenges facing Britain’

Budget slammed as ‘scattergun’ by think tank formerly ran by Treasury minister

The Resolution Foundation says the Budget will do little to address ‘the sharp challenges facing Britain’

Labour's Favourite Think Tank Attacks Healey's Budget Rabbit

The Resolution Foundation’s chief executive, Ruth Curtice, has attacked John Healey’s rabbit.  Labour’s favourite think tank not having it… She said the £100 per household energy support package showed Healey had “spread the jam thin,” while bills are rising by four times that figure. Wonder why? Meanwhile welfare spending is set to rise by £19…

Budget 2026 - Conservatives and think tanks give their reaction to Healey's debut

Senior Conservatives and think tanks, responding to Chancellor John Healey’s Budget Responding to John Healey’s Budget 2026, Simon Clarke, director of Onward said:  “This Budget was a missed opportunity that means the choices the country faces will be even harder in the future. Britain is drowning in three trillion pounds of debt, while the Chancellor shuffled costs from one pocket to the next. “Businesses and households should not enter into an…

Budget reactions: “ A huge missed opportunity”

“The Budget contains welcome measures to ease the burden on households, but the Government must embrace far more radical solutions to deliver the change Britain desperately needs,” said Momentum in response to Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget. Energy commitments: “lukewarm at best” One highlight was measures to tackle energy bills. These include a £100 payment […]

The budget: my reaction

It is very hard to explain just how bad yesterday’s Budget was, in terms of having nothing to say, in terms of its presentation, and in terms of the abandonment of responsibility to the people of this country that it represented on the part of a Prime Minister and a Chancellor of the Exchequer, both of whom were desperate for power, and both of whom have proved that they have no idea what to do with it. I have now offered two videos on the Budge…