George Osborne: has he reached his own targets?

There will be many assessments of the economic record of the Coalition government in the run up to the 2015 election. Not many people read the Independent (it has a daily circulation of under 70,000 last time I checked) but this article from their Economics correspondent Ben Chu is well worth a read especially for AS macro students wanting to update their contextual knowledge. He looks at eight of the key economic targets set out by George Osborne in his 2010 Mais Lecture. Has he delivered on these? Read on here