22 Mar 2015
UK gears up for close result in May election
This week UK Chancellor George Osbourne released his pre-election Budget package - promising a sharper squeeze on public spending and cutting welfare benefits by 12-billion pounds. Tim Bale is professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London and the author of The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron, and The Conservatives since 1945: the Drivers of Party Change. He is a former lecturer in politics at Victoria University.