Putting a stop to volunteer work and telling people to hit the streets to take up sex work and drug dealing would drive up GDP, a former Whitehall chief said as he savaged the Government’s botched growth plans.
The “radical” tongue-in-cheek suggestion was made by Lord Gus O’Donnell at Westminster as he argued maximising the economic measure was “really, really stupid” and “not something any grown up wants to do”.
