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The stagnation of the UK economy and living standards

Three charts from today’s Adam Tooze newsletter 👇 How do you fix this while leaving fundamental questions of wealth distribution untouched? I don’t just have an instinctive hostility to Starmer at that stage because, in a fit of post-traumatic naivety, I voted for him in the belief he would unite the party around a softer version of the 2017 manifesto. I simply don’t get intellectually how the party can box itself in to the extent it has yet offer meaningful solutions to the immense structural problems facing the country. If you don’t correct the stagnation of real wages, which the chart below doesn’t quite capture when it represents averages, the far-right will thrive over the coming years.

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