With a week to go to polling day, Jon Dean highlights the differences - and similarities - between the fiscal and financial services-related policies promised by the five main parties in their manifestos
Theresa May's call for a snap general election on 8 June appears to have caught everyone napping - including her own party. Despite announcing the poll on 18 April, the Conservative Party manifesto was not published until a whole month later - two weeks after the start of the campaign. With 16 days until polling day, the SNP manifesto launch was further delayed following tragic circumstances in Manchester. UKIP was the first party to relaunch campaigning with its manifesto release on 25 May. At 2015's closely fought election, there was a good deal of overlap between the election promi...
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