
The Conservative Party conference offered no policies to fix the country
The ruling Conservative Party might have reflected on its failures and offered fresher policies to rejuvenate the economy and heal social divisions
The ruling Conservative Party might have reflected on its failures and offered fresher policies to rejuvenate the economy and heal social divisions
Truss is urging Sunak to be bolder and tackle the UK’s low-growth ‘crisis’.
Questions ought to be asked about Wilko directors paying £3m in dividends in the financial year to 31 January 2022 when Wilko made a pre-tax loss of £38.7m
‘When Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina on the Channel’
It’s everyone else’s fault apparently…
“Another dismal day for growth in the UK economy. Appalling Tory decisions (and failures to make decisions) have left us stuck in a low growth, high tax trap.”
‘If you’re flat on your back it’s quite easy to grow faster.’
The good news of today doesn’t make up for 15 years of unprecedented wage stagnation.
It comes as a leading economic think tank warned that the UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year.
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