Economic forecasts: Will Hutton and Liam Halligan

Telegraph economics commentator Liam Halligan and political economist Will Hutton looked back at forecasts over the past few decades.

They looked at whether they came true, and how much the economy was helped or hindered by economic cycles and the actions of chancellors after they watched a Daily Politics film looking at 1981 and 2013.

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