Polanski calls for UK to replace ‘failing’ budget rules with ‘fiscal referees’

Zack Polanski has called for the UK to replace its “failing” budget rules with “fiscal referees”, as he set out his vision to “end rip-off Britain”.In his first major speech on the economy since becoming the Green Party leader, he said Sir Keir Starmer’s Government must break out of the “bond market doom loop” under which he said the fiscal framework is overly sensitive to market movements, which in turn generates policy uncertainty and exacerbates instability.Mr Polanski set out how a Green government would revamp the framework, as “decades of fiscal tightening, often to meet fiscal rules, have meant stretched services, and people suffering”.