Teswell: We need government to focus on data. Let's look at the numbers. The numbers don't lie. This is the situation, and i think it helps us design policy much better. We've got be forward leaning. We cannot be in the sort of here and now. Let's seno. Let's pander to voters because we want to win elections. Unfortunately, that is a natural outerfact of the of the democratic process. It created this mass of schism between short term imperatives and politics versus the long term problemsthat we'v talked about here. I mean, especially for somebody from africa, seeing this in the west, on the corruption of
Former governor of the Bank of England Lord King, global economist Dr Dambisa Moyo and businessman Ian Livingstone join Senior Editor at the Economist Anne McElvoy to map out a road to economic recovery after the pandemic. Following UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's warning of a new 'tidal wave' of Covid-19 cases in the coming weeks in the UK and beyond, we returned to this discussion from the Cliveden Literary Festival in October about what Operation Phoenix - rising from the ashes of the economic crisis - would actually mean.
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