Paul Johnson, director of the influential Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), has announced that he will step down from his role next summer.

Johnson, who became Director of the IFS in January 2011, will take up the role of Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford.

Johnson joined the IFS for the first time in 1988 before entering the civil service in 1998.

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