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The Productivity Institute

  • Reeves to lay out 10-year infrastructure plan worth £725bn

    Politics

    Chancellor Reeves is set to deliver a 10-year infrastructure strategy plan which will lay out efforts to boost growth and upgrade services across the UK.  The new blueprint for UK infrastructure will come around a week after Reeves delivered the Spending Review, which marked out £190bn in extra government spending commitments for the years between [...]

    Banks might not be able to escape a Rachel Reeves' tax raid come November.
  • How Manchester hopes to influence Rachel Reeves to boost UK productivity

    Economics

    A new think tank has been launched in Manchester hoping to influence Chancellor Rachel Reeves and the new Labour government’s efforts to boost productivity across the UK. The Productivity Institute, which is based at the University of Manchester, has set up a policy unit with the aim of ‘informing and influencing’ the likes of Reeves. [...]

    A new think tank has been set up with hopes of influencing Chancellor Rachel Reeves and the new Labour government. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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