Welcome to our State of the Nation series, which looks at the coalition government’s progress over the past five years, across a range of key policy areas.

Few issues have defined the past five years of British politics as much as immigration.

Throughout the current parliament,...

Housing has been placed firmly at centre stage in the election campaign with the Conservative plan to allow tenants of housing associations to buy their homes at a 35% discount.

Speaking at the launch of the Conservative manifesto in Swindon, David Cameron said his party has...

As ever in the run-up to a general election, Britain is seeing an increased interest in how the economy has been performing. The electoral fate of a government is often expected to relate directly to the state of the nation’s wallets. But as new evidence suggests, there may be more to it than...