The evidence for Brexit and other key election issues - LSE

Report crunches the numbers

Tom Ellis
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The London School of Economics (LSE) has published a report assessing all of the party manifestos and how respective policies will affect key voter issues.

Intended to be "objective, brief and non-technical", the report by the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance looks at the evidence on the most-talked-about policies, including education, health, immigration, industrial strategy, living standards, regional policy and Brexit. With a quick nod to pensions, the report claimed the disparity between keeping the triple lock - as Labour want to do - and introducing a double lock, which the Tories have promised, is relatively small in the current era of weak real wage growth. It would be less relevant if wage growth returned to the UK market, ...

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