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Here you go, it's an interesting read. The guy who put the analysis together is a Labour party adviser so he does have a vested interest but the figures themselves are from the Bank of England...

As I pointed out the other day, when you look at actual Bank of England figures (not the department of made-up statistics) historically it's the Tories who have borrowed heavily when in office and Labour who pay back debt, so there's little actual evidence for this. However, in a period of...

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I agree that increasing the tax yield will not automatically improve productivity but there are ways that it could be used. As El Pres says, the UK has an under-trained workforce and certainly could improve there. I've just been speaking to a Volkswagen executive about a shift in its IT...

But if the population continues to increase and more housing stock is needed (not just because of the population rising but because more people live on their own), what will stop the property boom continuing? If we continually build fewer houses than are needed, won't the laws of supply and...

I don't know where you got those figures from - the department of made-up statistics,I assume - but the increase in traffic last year was 2.2% - and that was the highest increase for some time - mainly driven by lower petrol prices. The DoT figures can be found here. By an amazing coincidence...