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

<p>On this week&#39;s podcast with <strong>Sonia Rothwell</strong> and <strong>James Sproule</strong>. The UK gets a mixed scorecard on growth prospects from the OECD – is it a fair assessment?</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p>