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Reeves' borrowing rules 'need a rethink', claims IFS

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is "fixated" on borrowing rules which are contributing to "dysfunctional policymaking", according to a leading think tank. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the UK's approach "needs a rethink" to move away from constraints that "require some measure of borrowing or debt to be below a particular threshold in a specified year". [...]