It's easy to see why populists do well in an age of insecurity | Larry Elliott

Living through the biggest economic slump in a century, it's no surprise people are angry

There has been much debate about why the public has started to lose faith in mainstream political parties but the reason behind the rise of populism doesn't take much working out.

The past decade has seen the biggest financial crisis in a century, the biggest slump since the Great Depression and the slowest recovery since the second world war. Living standards have flatlined and public spending has been cut.