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Paul Johnson – Follow the Money: How Much Does Britain Cost?
March 24, 2024 @ 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Price: £12.50
Venue: The Hub at St Mary’s
Follow The Money is a forensic examination by the man best placed to do so – Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson – of what it costs to run the United Kingdom’s economy.
Government decisions determine the welfare of the poor and the elderly, our health service, our children’s education, and our preparedness for the future.
Nearly four pounds out every ten we earn goes, one way or another, to the taxman. What are the combined effects of these decisions to take billions from us every year and then dish it out again?
Johnson looks at the financial crisis of 2008-09, the austerity years that followed, and then the reaction to the coronavirus with by far the biggest spending splurge in peacetime history, as well as peering into our economic futures as we try to reach a new ‘normal’ after Covid-19.
Paul Johnson has been Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. A Times columnist, he also regularly contributes to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in the UCL Policy Lab and at the UCL department of economics. Paul was appointed CBE in the 2018 birthday honours and published the Sunday Times bestseller Follow the Money in 2023.
