The main parties are spending most of their time arguing over the speed and extent of cuts, when they should be talking about growth.
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Our experts check if Plaid Cyrmu’s policies measure up.
The experts assess whether the claims in the Liberal Democrats’ manifesto align with the evidence.
Our experts asses the credibility of UKIP’s top ticket policies.
Labour’s manifesto promise of fairer taxes – re-introducing the 10p tax and raising the top rate for high earners – sounds good. But they may not see the benefits in reality.
The Liberal Democrats’ commitment to austerity will help cut the deficit, but likely come at the expense of growth.
The Labour Party has put tackling tax avoidance firmly on the election agenda.
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.
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…
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