A Week in Politics

Tuesday 13th July 2010, 3:00PM BST.

As the States thrash out proposals for getting the Island out of a £100m deficit over the next three years, Jersey Evening Post political correspondent Ben Quérée takes a look at their recent record.

‘Public spending increased by 80 per cent between 2000 and 2010 compared to an RPI rise of 42 per cent, the increase driven by a public sector workforce that grew nine times faster than the private sector – those figures alone illustrate what the cutters are up against.’

• See today’s JEP for the full article