智库的有影响力的预算前报告敦促必须现在做出关键决定，而不能拖延到明年。英国领先的税收和支出专家警告财政大臣约翰·赫利（John Healey），如果他不制定计划来应对350亿英镑的财政压力，他的预算将面临成为‘虚构作品’的风险。
Thinktank’s influential pre-budget report urges key decisions to be made now and not put off until next year John Healey has been warned by Britain’s leading tax and spending experts that his budget risks being a “work of fiction” unless he sets out plans to cover £35bn in spending pressures.
随着中东战争动摇公共财政，财政研究所（IFS）表示，通胀上升带来的损害意味着财政大臣必须要么增加资金以支持当前政府的支出计划，要么在本世纪末之前实施深度实际削减。
As the war in the Middle East rattles the public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the damage from higher inflation meant the chancellor would need to either top up funds for his current government spending plans or impose deep real-terms cuts by the end of the decade.