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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 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.
Research indicates that Conservative proposals will increase incentives for the unemployed to return to work, but it won’t reduce poverty.
We all want security, freedom and independence, but the Conservative Party’s housing proposal does not square with their inheritance tax policies.
Labour’s health manifesto does not rule out all NHS privatisation, despite vowing to protect service’s public status.
Above and beyond a defence of membership, the manifesto makes little in the way of pledges about EU policy.
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.
The UK’s economic performance can be spun in different ways. Here, the Coalition’s economic record is broken down.
Rises in house prices and rents is far from uniform across the country. But how might this affect voters?
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.
Though the Plaid Cymru manifesto contains some commendable fiscal reforms, the measures are unlikely to boost productivity.
According to our expert, Plaid Cymru has some sensible financial and monetary policies… and some less sensible, too.
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’s numbers on growth add up, but their policies could end up costing the taxpayer.
Plaid Cymru’s immigration policies might be good for Wales, but don’t square with the rest of the UK.
Plaid Cyrmu’s manifesto promises greater expenditure, but at what cost?
Viewing the economic situation in Britain as a north-south divide tends to oversimplify things – and calls for a closer look.
The coalition’s austerity programme knocked 1% off growth, and yet all parties are planning on sticking with it.
Our drugs policy expert sheds some light on the Liberal Democrats’ radical new proposals.
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.