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Thursday, 27 June 2024

UK Election Special: The Conservatives could lose almost every seat to efficient tactical voting

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  Of course MRP polls could be wrong. However while looking at many of these polls (using this very useful site from Peter Inglesby ), the...
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Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Why UK taxes should be higher

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  Discussion of taxation in the UK is bedevilled by two problems: one familiar and one less obvious. The familiar one is to imagine the leve...
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Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Why is this election a disaster for the Conservatives?

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  The title of this post might seem like a daft question, because it has so many plausible answers. As a result, endless articles have been ...
Tuesday, 11 June 2024

The macroeconomic cost of Conservative government

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During this election period there has been plenty of analysis that looks at how the economy has performed since 2010 ( the IFS here for exa...
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Tuesday, 4 June 2024

Should voting in this election be about punishing the Conservatives, signalling to a future Labour government or something else?

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  I didn’t write about the election last week because I didn’t think there was anything of interest to say that I haven’t already said. At t...
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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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