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I believed Starmer and Reeves were too smart to repeat austerity. It appears I was wrong | David Blanchflower

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British 15-year-olds had the lowest life satisfaction levels of 27 European countries.

In a 2023 report on global mental health, the UK ranked the second worst of 71 countries.

Millions of people of all ages on waiting lists for surgeries, GP services are in decline, dentists are scarce and social care is in disarray.

George Osborne’s response to the 2007-08 financial crash was disastrous.

David Blanchflower is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College .

He was a member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee from 2006 to 2009 .

Investing in the British people is smart economics, he says.

“Nobody told us we could do that” would be no excuse.