The UK’s economic performance can be spun in different ways. Here, the Coalition’s economic record is broken down.
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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.
The rise of hand car washing businesses in the UK helps explain the country’s productivity puzzle.
A closer look at the numbers shows significant variation in the way pensioners have benefitted under the coalition – some have, some haven’t.
Is the UK condemning itself to decades of underachievement and potentially terminal decline?
Viewing the economic situation in Britain as a north-south divide tends to oversimplify things – and calls for a closer look.
In his budget speech, George Osborne claimed that the north grew faster than the south last year. Is he right?
What the chancellor didn’t mention is that UK GDP per person is 16% lower than we would have expected on pre-crisis trends and the major factor is lousy productivity growth.
Austerity has not been a success for the Chancellor, but that won’t stop him from trying to paint is as such.
The creative industries are no replacement for the manufacturing sector.
A look at how the UK economy is doing ahead of what’s set to be a political budget from Conservative Chancellor George Osborne.
David Cameron has announced his aspiration for the UK to become a nation of “full employment”, promising that Britain will have the highest employment rate of any major world economy. This is not the first…
In the first of a series of keynote speeches Prime Minister David Cameron identified the central theme of the Conservative Party’s 2015 general election manifesto: “to get Britain back to living within…
There can be no doubt that the job market has been more resilient since the financial crisis than many imagined. Unemployment did not rise as far as was feared and the recovery in employment to pre-recession…
George Osborne has delivered his latest Autumn Statement, announcing there has been no recession during this parliament and forecasting that the British economy will grow by 3% this year. This final Autumn…
The number of professional and middle-class managerial jobs has shrunk, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford University. This is bad news for Britain’s graduates and represents a worrying…
Unemployment in the UK has fallen below two million for the first time in almost six years, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show. It’s certainly good news, but there are some important…
Car sales have raced to a ten-year high according to new figures that are being celebrated as part of wider signs of a UK recovery. In the latest monthly figures published by the Society for Motor Manufacturers…
The news that the British housing market may have reached a turning point, with one forecast showing a price fall in 2015 and a drop in London prices for the first time in three years, will have been welcome…
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
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Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS, University of London
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
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Vice Dean and Associate Professor in Economics, University of East London
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Professor of Finance, University of Liverpool
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
