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Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Some thoughts on Labour's campaign

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The importance of this election cannot be overstated. Voters have a choice between re-electing a government that since 2010 has done untol...
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Saturday, 30 November 2019

Will UK voters really vote for the Republican party and our own Donald Trump?

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There is so much about today’s Conservative party that is very similar to the Republican party in the US. To establish this, there is no b...
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Wednesday, 27 November 2019

In defence of the IFS, and why it cannot tell the whole story

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Our own fiscal council, the OBR, is very restricted in what it is allowed to say by the party that created it. As a consequence, it is abs...
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Saturday, 23 November 2019

Is Labour’s economic plan credible?

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Labour have a huge set of spending proposals, many of which are unequivocally good like extra spending on the NHS, some are open to debate...
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Wednesday, 20 November 2019

How to disguise a really big lie? Put it on a bus.

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The Tories, and particularly their leader, lie all the time. It is quite shameless. But there is a corollary to this. If your whole campa...
Saturday, 16 November 2019

The Tories will never undo the impact of austerity

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One of the impacts of 2010 austerity we saw again last week. Widespread flooding ruining hundreds of homes, and costing a life. Can w...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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