BARRING MIRACLES (or an unlikely decision to hold the next general election in January 2025, the last legally-possible month), 2024 will be the final year of the present Conservative government.
Although the Conservatives were in coalition with the Liberal Democrats at the start, the period 2010 to 2024 will have been dominated by Conservative policy-making. On the economic front, only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure.
Output per hour worked has gone up in the 14 years, but by only 0.5 per cent a
