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Uxbridge Over Troubled Water?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

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The Pessimistic View on Inflation

I think an event like last autumn is an event like 92, or the autumn of 2007 for Gordon Brown. There's been a sea change in politics. Lots of watery metaphors. The whole thing of watery has swept the conservative economic competence thing. I'm not going to look at the small uptick in the chart and go, some designers return and hang on with the Tories because the sunny days are here. And also you've got the lag defective just how terrible public services are too. We will have had a couple of years of the worst results for disposable income since the 50s. Although there might be some real wage increases.

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