Why Labour should target happiness alongside economic growth | Heather Stewart

With the UK still shaking off the psychological side-effects of Covid, Rachel Reeves might want to broaden her aims

Every parent who battled their way through home schooling during the long months of lockdown, and every vulnerable person forced to shield themselves away, can have had little doubt that the Covid pandemic was an unhappy time.

But research by the non-profit consultancy Pro Bono Economics (PBE), suggests that the nation's wellbeing has never fully recovered from the plunge it took in mid-2020.