In its 13th year of Conservative economic stewardship, the UK has become, in the words of the Resolution Foundation thinktank, “stagnation nation”. But we should remember the conclusion of Edward Gibbon in his voluminous history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire: “All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”
Yes, if there is one thing on which Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are agreed, it is that the British economy needs growth. It must advance.
