Drop-In: How the UK’s economic backdrop is shaping its fiscal choices

The Chancellor’s Spending Review will set out the tough choices facing the UK government as it grapples with rising spending demands against a bleak economic outlook. How will it square these competing pressures? And will the government manage to keep the bond market onside?

Economists from our UK and Markets teams hosted this special briefing all about the economic outlook and its implications for the government’s fiscal commitments.