As the ONS tables show, they weight government services at 23.3% of output, meaning the 0.5% rise was worth about 0.12 percentage points of growth, not nearly enough to bring us up to the 0.3% record… (View Post)
A defection of 17% of the Tories 36% vote would be 6% overall. On current polling the Tories have actually only lost around five percentage points since the last election, which means they have made … (View Post)
I've compiled the census returns to show something about the overall demographic trends. As between 2001 and 2011, there has been an increase in the proportion of people in the age groups typically a… (View Post)
@tim Three points. Firstly, the fall is three hundred million pounds (if it is not revised) and Labour would do well not to play down the size of that - so I understand the 0.3% figure. Secondly, as … (View Post)