A former Tory Party chairman says the UK no longer looks like "a country which has things going for it" in a blistering assessment of its economic woes.
Lord Chris Patten also lashed out at "flat earthers" within the Conservative Party as he told a Question Time audience that we're in "a hell of a mess".
Lord Patten, who was the last Governor of Hong Kong and headed the Tories from 1991 to 1992, pointed out that the poorest in the UK are worse off than those in Poland, while productivity is higher in Lithuania "for heaven's sake".