COVID-19 vaccines are a gamechanger for our economic forecasts and mean that we now think that by the middle of the decade the economy won’t be much smaller than if the COVID-19 crisis had never happened. This is a more positive outlook than the views of the Bank of England and the OBR and suggests that taxes won’t need to rise to reduce the budget deficit back to pre-pandemic levels.
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