Day: 13 September 2023

Don’t blame austerity for the crumbling concrete, Osborne salvaged Britain’s deficit

If only the Conservatives had loosened the purse strings on public spending in the 2010s, the story now goes, all the decrepit buildings could have been fixed. “Austerity” has, of course, become the catch-all word describing the David Cameron and George Osborne policy of restrictions on public spending to control Britain’s financial deficit. This misperception […]