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Financial Times Article Rating

'Fiscal mandate' poses risk to health of UK public finances

Jun 04, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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-22% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Based on current market pricing for the path of official interest rates, government borrowing would be £2bn a year higher between 2024-25 and 2026-27 than the OBR had forecast.
46% : The think-tank said the OBR's forecast for long-run productivity growth of 1.1 per cent a year, which underpins growth in future tax receipts, looked optimistic, as it was much higher than the recent average.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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