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Where’s the money coming from?

The Power Test

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The Importance of Fiscal Rules in the Economy

Fiscal rules are a fairly new thing still in British economic policy. It was Gordon Brown who introduced the idea where you basically say, we are not going to spend more than this amount of money. There's lots of ways you can frame a fiscal rule but broadly speaking, it's like trying to set a limit on your credit card.

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