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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
William Keegan

Brexit will make a bad recession even worse. But Sunak and Truss won’t question it

Sunak and Truss stand next to one another on game-show-style TV set
Rushi Sunak and Liz Truss at the TalkTV Tory leadership debate. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Britain is rapidly entering its worst economic crisis since the 1970s, but it is a crisis hardly discussed by the two rightwing Conservative politicians vying for the premiership.

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and the Bank of England have both pronounced that we are entering a recession that could last for much of next year. This will serve to aggravate already serious economic, industrial and social problems, with goodness knows how much public unrest.

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