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Why Britain is so much poorer than you think

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Is There a Growth Plan?

Liz Trost was right about something, right? I mean, we do need a growth plan. But does this government in any way have a growth plan? And that is a very long way to come. Both of them are saying doing that is part of their growth plan. Liz was saying tax cuts will boost growth. Not of evidence for that, at least in the way she set out. Jeremy Hunt is saying fiscal tightening, that's how we keep inflation down and interest rates low. That's how we provide stability for growth. So both are dressing up what is a very, very, very different fiscal attitude. Whereas the underlying problem is that Britain doesn’t have a

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