Dear Editor
Andy Burnham blames the state of the British economy on deindustrialisation, deregulation, privatisation, and austerity – policies not seen since the 1980s and 1990s. Gordon Brown’s 1997 promise of prudence was, after all, short-lived
So how, I wonder, does Mr Burnham think he can marry his analysis with the reality of the high spending, high debt, regulatory and managerial state economy of the last two decades? It is hard to see his assessment leading anywhere other than to a further cranking up of borrowing and spending, bringing us ever closer to a 1976-style meltdown when the UK went cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund for a bail-out.
Julia Sparrow
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