Will there be anything for universities in the chancellor’s mini-budget?
Later today, chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will deliver his mini-budget, aka fiscal event, aka growth plan.
The difficulty the government has in deciding what to call it reflects a difficulty in identifying what exactly it is. For a mini-budget, it is “not likely to be all that mini”, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told an IFS pre-budget analysis event yesterday.