The Mystery of Britain’s Lopsided Growth Data
Economists, including at the Bank of England, suspect something is wrong with the numbers
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Have you voted yet? If you’re one of the millions of Brits with the chance to elect new councillors, mayors or assembly members today, you still have a few hours until the polls close.
Here in the newsroom, we sit in that eerie quiet-before-the-storm period with little to do but wonder: will the Labour party leadership breeze through the coming days, or will the results deliver a Westminster tempest? Either way, it’s ill-advised to discuss politics at dinner time so, as evening approaches, I’ll simply leave you with a hat-trick of our contextual pre-election articles as a reminder of how we got here: