Will Trump rip up Reeves's rebalanced books?

30th March 2025

Stewart Wood, a Labour peer and former adviser to Gordon Brown, joins the Institute for government podcast team to assess Rachel Reeves's attempts to turn around the economy.

How much will welfare cuts upset Labour backbenchers? What could Donald Trump's tariffs mean for Reeves's plans?. And just how difficult are the choices awaiting the chancellor as the spending review approaches?.

Listen to the podcast HERE
48 Minutes

Plus: New IfG research focuses on left-behind groups - and sets out some of the tensions in how the government is approaching one of its missions and milestones.