The epitaph for Tory austerity has been written, and it’s damning | Aditya Chakrabortty
by Aditya Chakrabortty from Economics | The Guardian on (#43360)
The UN report is harshly critical of government policy, saying it's been driven by social re-engineering rather than economics
Britain's government has today been held up in front of the world and comprehensively damned for the misery and chaos it has inflicted on its own people. Its defining policy of austerity is revealed to the international community as callous, as ineffective, and even as un-British. These judgments do not come from some well-known foe of Theresa May and David Cameron - but from a UN envoy.
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