Skip to content

Autumn Budget deck docs: describe the 7 slides that were presented #87

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
MaxGhenis merged 1 commit into from
Oct 28, 2026
+28 −12
Merged

Autumn Budget deck docs: describe the 7 slides that were presented #87

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
14 changes: 8 additions & 6 deletions slideshows/autumn-budget-2026/README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,23 +1,25 @@
# Analysing the Autumn Budget 2026 with PolicyEngine

5 slides at `/slides/autumn-budget-2026`, for the 28 October 2026 webinar
7 slides at `/slides/autumn-budget-2026`, for the 28 October 2026 webinar
(`/slides/introduction-2026` redirects here):
what PolicyEngine is, how we prepared for Budget day, and a slide with the live
what PolicyEngine is, the Budget measures we model (two slides), how we
prepared for Budget day, and a slide with the live
[Autumn Budget 2026 dashboard](https://ab2026-local-preview.vercel.app/uk/autumn-budget-2026)
embedded in it, where the analysis is presented. The closing slide links the
same address, with its QR code, and credits the Nuffield Foundation, which
funds our UK Budget analysis.

- `config.ts` controls the slide order and metadata.
- `content.ts` holds the sources, the three pillars of What PolicyEngine is,
the dates of the Budget-day rehearsals (the mock Budgets) and the
preparation items, written for a general audience.
the measures on the two measures slides (`measureSlides`), the dates of the
Budget-day rehearsals (the mock Budgets) and the preparation items, written
for a general audience.
- `slides/index.tsx` contains the slides. The analysis slide embeds the
dashboard itself (`slides/DashboardEmbed.tsx`): Expand stretches the same
frame over the whole screen, so whatever is open in it is kept, and New tab
opens it in the browser. Buttons in its bar load the Public finances,
Pensioners (By age) and Living standards sub-tabs and the Household
calculator tab into the frame. The deck draws no charts of its own, so nothing
Pensioners (By age) and Living standards sub-tabs and the Policies and
Household calculator tabs into the frame. The deck draws no charts of its own, so nothing
here goes stale when the dashboard's data change.
- `SPEAKER-NOTES.md` gives the presenter track.

Expand Down
26 changes: 20 additions & 6 deletions slideshows/autumn-budget-2026/SPEAKER-NOTES.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -11,7 +11,21 @@ A brief view: PolicyEngine in one line (a nonprofit building free,
open-source tools, in policyengine.org's own words), then the rules, the
households and the results, and that all the code is public.

## 3. How we prepared
## 3 and 4. The Budget measures we model

Each measure's author introduces it, 30 to 60 seconds each, in slide order,
while Vahid keeps the screen:

- **Slide 3:** David Trimmer (zero VAT on domestic electricity and the
Household Energy Payment), then Ziming Hua (property and savings income, and
the trading allowance, which is on slide 4, bottom right).
- **Slide 4:** Pavel Makarchuk (the Pension Tax Allowance and fuel duty), then
Anthony Volk (the Carer's Allowance taper).

The footer points to the dashboard's Policies tab for the full descriptions
and the measures we don't model.

## 5. How we prepared

The slide is for a general audience: the rehearsals and what they gave us.
The detail below is background, if asked.
Expand All @@ -31,9 +45,9 @@ The detail below is background, if asked.
#178). The household calculator also runs on Modal and is kept warm.
- Mark anything still in review as such on the slide before presenting.

## 4. The analysis: live dashboard
## 6. The analysis: live dashboard

The dashboard itself is on the slide; it loads while slide 3 is showing.
The dashboard itself is on the slide; it loads while slide 5 is showing.
Press **Expand** to fill the screen with it and present from there. **Back to
the slide** returns to the deck with the same tab, measures and household
still open. **New tab** opens it in a browser tab, if the embedded copy ever
Expand All @@ -43,8 +57,8 @@ While you are using the dashboard, the arrow keys, Space and a clicker go to
it, not to the deck (the arrows switch its tabs). Press **Back to the slide**,
or click the bar above the dashboard, before moving on.

The buttons in the bar (Public finances, Pensioners, Living standards,
Household calculator) load that view into the frame; each click reloads it,
The buttons in the bar (Public finances, Policies, Pensioners, Living
standards, Household calculator) load that view into the frame; each click reloads it,
so measures or a household chosen in the frame are not kept. Its tabs:

- **Population impact**, with five sub-tabs: **Public finances** (the
Expand All @@ -63,7 +77,7 @@ These are the tabs at ab2026-local-preview.vercel.app/uk/autumn-budget-2026
on 28 October. The frame and the closing slide's link and QR code all open
that address.

## 5. Close
## 7. Close

The dashboard link, with a QR code for phones, and how to reach us. Thank
the Nuffield Foundation, which funds our UK Budget analysis ("funded by",
Expand Down
Loading