After 2008’s financial crisis, life went back to normal. Will it this time?

A few short years after the financial crash, oil, food and flights were affordable again. But this downturn looks much darker

Watching the Conservative party candidates spray money around as they vie to win the keys to No 10, it seems churlish to ask where the cash will come from. Running a 21st-century economy is not cheap and, unfortunately for those in power, gets more expensive every year.

More immediately, to prevent a cost of living crisis translating into a calamity this winter for low- and middle-income households, a bigger bailout is on the cards.