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Was Lord Young right to say we've never had it so good?

David Cameron's enterprise adviser Lord Young has stepped down following Tory embarrassment over his claim that most Britons "had never had it so good," and that many people have gained from low interest rates during this "so-called recession".

But did Lord Young actually have a point? Michael Crick crunches the data to find out.

Broadcast on Friday 19 November 2010.

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