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Pat McFadden: ‘The economic problems the country is facing are not just the product of the disastrous ideological experiment forced on the country in recent weeks’
In its latest incarnation, the Tory tactics are clear, if also transparently desperate: to pretend that the period of the Liz Truss premiership was all a bad dream visited upon them by a strange alien force and now the grown-ups are back in charge. It won’t wash. . They have left living standards falling behind comparable countries and left us more exposed to global shocks such as the energy price spike hit caused byThe mini-Budget was just a more extreme form of Tory thinking, not an aberration from it. The idea that all you need for economic growth is a return to trickle-down economics, tax cuts for the wealthy – funded by borrowing from everyone else – and the unleashing of the animal spirits didn’t start last month.