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One Month Until The Budget: Why the UK is in such a bad state - and how we can fix it

Last month, Fighting for a Free Future hosted our first briefing event. You can now watch 'One Month Until The Budget' here on Substack, our YouTube channel, and across our podcast platforms.

In case you missed it, Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA will be hosting a live Question and Answer session here on Voices for a Free Future for paid subscribers next week, 18:30 GMT on Thursday the 4th of December. Find out how to submit a question here.


On Tuesday 28 October 2025, Fighting for a Free Future hosted our first briefing event. Titled One Month Until The Budget, we heard from some of the UK’s most eminent free market thinkers on why the UK is in such a bad state, and what can be done about.

With the ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ Budget coming up tomorrow, we’ve released the full event across all our podcast channels:

Speakers included:

Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA, Fighting for a Free Future
Robert Colvile, The Centre for Policy Studies
Maxwell Marlow, The Adam Smith Institute
Fred de Fossard, The Prosperity Institute
John O’Connell, The TaxPayers’ Alliance
Harry Wilkinson, The Global Warming Policy Foundation

You can also read our director Harry Richer’s reflections on the event below:

The "Nightmare Before Christmas" Budget is coming: Reflecting on Fighting for a Free Future's first event

The "Nightmare Before Christmas" Budget is coming: Reflecting on Fighting for a Free Future's first event

With the Chancellor’s “Nightmare Before Christmas” Budget now weeks away, last week, Fighting for a Free Future brought together some of Britain’s leading free market thinkers to diagnose why the UK …

You can find our Chairman, Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA’s take on the upcoming budget here:

Budget 2025: let's break free from this doom loop

Budget 2025: let's break free from this doom loop

In case you missed it, Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA will be hosting a live Question and Answer session here on Voices for a Free Future for paid subscribers in two weeks, 18:30 GMT on Thursday the 4th of December. Find out how to submit a question

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