The economy has come good in time for the election, in a way the coalition could hardly have dreamed of. The question is whether it will be enough to prevent a lurch into political instability, as David Smith reports.
In any election campaign but particularly this 
one the numbers fly so thick and fast that even experts struggle to keep up with them. Has the coalition presided over an employment miracle or the most prolonged squeeze on real wages since Victorian times? Has George Osborne cleverly steered Britain away from the edge of the fiscal cliff or has he badly missed all the targets he set himself in 2010?
When it comes to the recovery this is either an upturn that leaves other advanced...
