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17 December 2021

Exclusive polling shows key opportunity for Labour on the economy

Britons now associate “the economy” with employment and cost of living rather than balancing the books.

By Ben Walker

If you don’t win on the economy, you don’t win the country.

Not since 2013 has Labour come close to leading the Conservatives on who would best manage the public finances, polling for the New Statesman by Redfield & Wilton Strategies shows.

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