How concerned should we be about the Covid debt mountain? To what degree can we rely on OBR forecasts? And are tax hikes inevitable as we emerge from this crisis?

IEA Director General Mark Littlewood speaks to IEA Senior Academic Fellow Professor Philip Booth and Economics Fellow Julian Jessop about the state of the public finances.

You can read Julian's latest IEA briefing paper 'A briefing on the public finances: How deep a hole are we in?' here.