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How big is the economic crisis the UK is facing? With Duncan Weldon

How big is the economic crisis the UK is facing? With Duncan Weldon

Daily Politics from the New Statesman · The New Statesman

August 30, 202230m 12s

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Show Notes


As the cost-of-living crisis and rapidly rising energy prices look set to push the UK into recession, how bad is the situation and what could be done about it?


The economist and journalist Duncan Weldon speaks to Will Dunn, the New Statesman’s business editor, about just how serious the crisis is, how it compares to the 1970s and why Liz Truss will find that tax cuts just won’t cut it.


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