Around 870,066 Universal Credit claimants in their twenties were not in work, equivalent to 67.5 per cent, higher than the average of 60.8 per cent. Birmingham's constituencies ranged from 67.7 to ...

TaxPayers’ Alliance launches an online tool that allows taxpayers to look up how much they pay for welfare spending in their local area, for the first time. AI-powered tool generates an itemised ...

Britain’s public finances are under growing strain, with debt close to twice the level seen during the 1976 fiscal crisis, a heavier interest burden, weaker productivity growth and mounting pressure ...

Responding to Andy Burnham’s speech at Labour party conference, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: “Burnham’s plan to abolish the triple lock will barely touch the sides ...

50 years on from the humiliation of our 1976 IMF bail-out loan, our analysis shows we’re now in an even worse fiscal mess. So what does the IMF think we should do to dig ourselves out this time? We ...

Britain has a serious fiscal problem. Public spending has already grown beyond the economy’s sustainable funding capacity, and long-term projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and ...

7.3 million working age adults in England and Wales claiming universal credit as of May 2026, including 3.3 million under the age of 40. At least 30 per cent of the working age population in 15 ...

A curious piece appeared in the New Statesman last month, claiming that low income households pay hundreds of pounds more for the same essentials as everyone else. The article rests on a longstanding ...

The waistband on the trousers of the civil service continues to stretch as the Whitehall blob expands year after year. The prime minister may come and go, but the appetite for a larger, more active ...

This summer, millions of British families will head off for a well-earned holiday. Yet whether travelling abroad or staying in the UK, holidaymakers face a growing range of taxes before and during ...

The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) today reveals the true extent of Britain’s borrowing boom, with hidden liabilities boosting our real national debt to £11.7 trillion. TPA analysis for the Daily Telegraph ...

Active users of X may have seen a viral clip last week of LBC host Nick Ferrari pushing back on the claim that 7 million households supposedly cannot afford a 50p toothbrush. The figure comes from the ...