All smiles in Thurrock.
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Top billing for Europe and tax plans pitched beyond the UKIP party faithful as party aims for the big time.
Halls of power.
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Labour’s 2015 manifesto has a feel that we are not yet getting their full thinking on how Britain should be governed.
Students can vote to start an election all over again.
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Students have helped solve the mystery of the million missing voters. We should thank them by giving them a reason to show up on May 7.
Welfare cuts should serve to increase employment, but
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Research indicates that Conservative proposals will increase incentives for the unemployed to return to work, but it won’t reduce poverty.
Cameron’s property-owning democracy plans don’t add up.
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We all want security, freedom and independence, but the Conservative Party’s housing proposal does not square with their inheritance tax policies.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
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Labour’s health manifesto does not rule out all NHS privatisation, despite vowing to protect service’s public status.
The EU is not top of the agenda in this little book.
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Above and beyond a defence of membership, the manifesto makes little in the way of pledges about EU policy.
The party of business?
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Long seen as the ‘party of the rich’, the Conservatives will find that flaunting the support of business leaders doesn’t have the same weight as it did in years gone by.
Not an economic policy dream team.
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The UK’s economic performance can be spun in different ways. Here, the Coalition’s economic record is broken down.
It’s a crazy market.
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Rises in house prices and rents is far from uniform across the country. But how might this affect voters?
Are we really?
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Five years of Coalition government later, it is clear that the poorest have paid most dearly as a result of various tax and benefit changes.
Plaid Cymru’s tax policies won’t go far unless they address productivity.
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Though the Plaid Cymru manifesto contains some commendable fiscal reforms, the measures are unlikely to boost productivity.
Watch out, Mark - Plaid Cymru want to change your remit.
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According to our expert, Plaid Cymru has some sensible financial and monetary policies… and some less sensible, too.
Steeped in privilege.
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The business leaders who’ve come out in support of the Conservatives aren’t as qualified to judge economic success as you might think.
Plaid Cymru will appeal to voters who oppose austerity.
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Plaid’s numbers on growth add up, but their policies could end up costing the taxpayer.
Highly skilled migrant? Student? Refugee? You’d be welcome in Wales.
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Plaid Cymru’s immigration policies might be good for Wales, but don’t square with the rest of the UK.
Doctors will be asking: am I needed here?
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Plaid Cyrmu’s manifesto promises greater expenditure, but at what cost?
It’s grin up north for George Osborne.
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Viewing the economic situation in Britain as a north-south divide tends to oversimplify things – and calls for a closer look.
Get set for groundhog day.
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The coalition’s austerity programme knocked 1% off growth, and yet all parties are planning on sticking with it.
He may not look it, but this guy is totally radical.
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Our drugs policy expert sheds some light on the Liberal Democrats’ radical new proposals.
Dubious claims?
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The Conservatives are campaigning on the idea that they have succeeded at reducing the UK’s fiscal deficit. But deficit reduction has been an economic failure.