Election 2001

Our election briefing notes are divided into two groups. The first six notes deal with different areas of Labour's record over their past term in government. The following three notes analyse the proposals from the three main parties' manifestoes. On 23rd May we will launch a consolidated election briefing, which will also contain comparative work using the manifestos, looking particularly at welfare and public spending commitments.

You can download the whole election commentary here.

Election Briefing Notes dealing with the 1997-2001 Parliament are:

Introduction
Overall tax and spending
Public services
Living standards and inequality
Fiscal reform affecting households
Labour and business taxes

Manifesto Analysis (download press release)

Conservatives (download briefing note | download press release)
Liberal Democrats (download briefing note | download press release)
Labour (download briefing note | download press release)
The main parties' tax and spending proposals
The structure of welfare
Should we let people opt out of the basic state pension?
Public spending: What are the options beyond March 2004?