#241 Is the UK economy as bad as the OECD says?

On this week's podcast with Sonia Rothwell and James Sproule. The UK gets a mixed scorecard on growth prospects from the OECD – is it a fair assessment?

With the UK budget only a month away, pressure is mounting on Chancellor John Healey as the economic data is showing good and bad news. What should he pay most attention to?

And home ownership has long been the dream of many – we’ll look at data which shows that lenders are offering higher levels of loans, a trend that started just after the global financial crisis.