business
The Guardian view on Labour’s growth obsession: a different economics is possible
The latest edition of Radical Thinking, the Guardian’s new podcast, should be required listening at a Treasury still stifled by outdated orthodoxies As prime ministers have come and gone at bewildering speed in recent years, the search for elusive economic growth has become the overriding fixation of the British political class. Echoing Mr Starmer’s approach, Mr Burnham’s chancellor, John Healey, told the Labour party conference in September: “Without growth, there is no social democracy.”
