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SUMMARY:The unelectable budget: what Britain really needs
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Sh
 eikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 22 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerGus O'DonnellChair
 Professor Coretta PhillipsThe UK finds itself in very difficult waters: a 
 long term decline in growth\, a need to spend much more on defence\, very 
 high taxes and multiple demands to increase public spending such as on soc
 ial care\, while borrowing so much that debt interest is one of our larges
 t spending programmes. And the world is in turmoil as a result of climate 
 change and “forever wars”.Meanwhile our children have the lowest wellb
 eing in Europe and are near the bottom of Pisa’s list of all OECD countr
 ies. And we are struggling with over a million neets.Can democracies solve
  these problems?In our 2026 Annual Lecture\, Gus O’Donnell will answer a
  slightly different question: even if we had a benevolent dictator\, can w
 e agree on what needs to be done and how to do it? We might then consider 
 what changes are needed to allow us to preserve a working democracy while 
 pursuing a policy path that solves our multiple problems.Meet our speaker 
 and chairGus O’Donnell is an economist who headed the Government economi
 c service and then became permanent secretary of HM Treasury before being 
 made Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service. Post the civil servi
 ce he has worked on how to make wellbeing the goal of policy. He is a cros
 sbench member of the House of Lords\, co-chair of the All party group on w
 ellbeing economics\, President of the IFS\, Ambassador for Frontier Econom
 ics\, honorary President of PBE (pro bono economics) and a trustee of the 
 Economist as well as a Professor in practice at the LSE.Coretta Phillips i
 s Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the LSE Department of Soci
 al Policy. Coretta’s research interests lie in the field of race\, ethni
 city\, crime\, criminal justice and social policy.More about this eventThe
  Department of Social Policy provides top quality international and multid
 isciplinary research and teaching on social and public policy challenges f
 acing countries across the world. From its foundation in 1912 it has carri
 ed out cutting edge research on core social problems and helped to develop
  policy solutions.Any questions?You can contact us at M.S.Schlegel@lse.ac.
 uk.From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly rec
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 onomics and Political Science.
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