UK Election Preview - The phoney fiscal debate

The outcome of the general election on May 6 is unlikely to transform the basic trajectory of the UK economy over the next five years. Whoever gains power will find their economic policy priorities dominated, and their ambitions hindered, by the over-riding need to address the fiscal crisis.

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