Analysis

Explore the data

These are the data pieces: interactive, sourced looks at the numbers behind UK politics. They show what the figures say, and where every figure comes from — a different job from the plain-English explainers.

• Analysis

  UK debt over time: three centuries, and who was in charge

  Drag through the years and watch the national debt rise and fall, the line coloured by the party in power and marked with the wars and crises that moved it most.

  1700–2024 · Bank of England, OBR & ONS
• Analysis

  Where the UK parties sit: the political compass over time

  Drag through the years and watch the main parties move on a two-axis map — the economy left to right, and state control of social life up and down.

  1945–2024 · Manifesto Project & Chapel Hill Survey