Ed Miliband
In my opinion Ed had a very strong 2013, at the beginning some political pundits where making predictions that Ed would not survive to end of the year.
However Ed had a good year and towards the end of year, Ed's political opponents started taking him more seriously.
Ed has been able to connect better with the British people and he comes across has someone who cares about their concerns.
David Cameron
David Cameron started off 2013 in a very strong position however it started to change and his own backbenchers seem unhappy with his leadership.
The Tories spent the year obsessing over Europe and demanding a referendum. David Cameron has now promised them a referendum after the next general election.
According to the various opinion polls, David Cameron is still seen has the right person to get us out of the recession but is opinion poll numbers have been going down.
Economy
At the beginning of the year the UK economy was in bad shape. However now the UK economy has started to grow again. This primarily to due the housing bubble and manufacturing growth.
Health
NHS was under real pressure in 2013 and the government response was to cut frontline staff. So NHS is under more pressure than ever even though cuts to its service have been ring fenced.
Crime
The crime rate has remains steady from the start to the end of 2013. This has been a suprise to me as I thought because of the recession crime would go up but this has not happened.
Nutshell
So in a nutshell even though the economy has started to grow most people are not seeing the growth.
Staff cuts to the NHS has put it under considerable strain.
However the crime has not increased which I was quite surprised about.
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