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What's Happening With the Government's Finances?

Geoff Riley

7th March 2017

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With the 2017 Budget imminent, Carl Emmerson from the IFS looks at the state of UK government finances. Only on 12 occasions since 1948 has the UK government run a budget surplus.

What's happening with the government's finances?
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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