Election Economics (General Election 2024)

Mortgages, tax, and cost of living: Is this an election on the economy? Podlitical sits down with BBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor Douglas Fraser, and Mairi Spowage, Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde, to discuss the economy and the role it's playing in the general election. How much of our current economic situation is down to internal decisions like taxation, mini-budgets, and Brexit, or external forces like the pandemic and the war in Ukraine? What routes are there for parties to improve the economy, and what challenges will the next UK Government face? The team examine what we know so far about the economic plans being pitched to the electorate.