Sunday 11th October * Around 870,066 Universal Credit claimants in their twenties were not in work, equivalent to 67.5 per ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *’ Alliance launches an online tool that allows taxpayers to look up how much they pay for welfare ...
Saturday, 4th October *’ Alliance releases a comprehensive map of benefits spending across England and Wales, across every ...
For immediate release Responding to Andy Burnham’s speech at Labour party conference, John O’Connell, chief executive of the ...
Responding to John Healey’s speech at Labour party conference, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said “The chancellor offered next to nothing to defuse the benefits bomb ...
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 ...
As we head into what is likely to be Labour’s third consecutive tax-raising budget, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just significantly revised up its estimate of historic productivity ...
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 ...
Responding to the news that more than half of Labour MPs have electoral majorities smaller than the number of disability benefits claimants in their constituency, John O’Connell, chief executive of ...
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 government has pledged a rewiring of the state, transferring powers, functions and resources away from Whitehall and towards regional and local government.[1] At the centre of that programme is an ...
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 ...