The Euro 'end game'?

The Euro crisis continues to limp along unresolved. Support is being provided in ever more opaque ways to prevent the crisis from coming to a head. In light of this the IEA and Bloomberg brought together an expert panel to ask whether this crisis can be resolved and if so how.

The video of the event - The Euro 'end game'? - is now online and can be viewed here. Speakers include Mark Littlewood, Roger Bootle, John Chown, Matthew Hancock MP and Patrick Minford

It might be thought that a succession of ‘tax cutting’ governments from 1979 and a government pledged to reduce inequality from 1997 would have led to a huge increase in the personal tax allowance so that we could keep more of our income without paying tax. If there was one thing on which you would expect Margaret Thatcher and the dour ‘son of the manse’ Gordon Brown to be agreed it is that the working poor should have their tax burden reduced