New research suggests UK tax rises aren’t needed

New research suggests UK tax rises aren’t needed

How productive is Britain and the average British worker? The more we make, the bigger the economy: with higher tax and living standards too. But since the financial crisis, Britain has underperformed and now, the official economic forecaster, is set to deliver a major downgrade, one that will vanish around £20bn of our wealth and heap extra pressure on the chancellor. It creates a problem for Rachel Reeves that she can only really solve by rais…