Chopping Britain’s legs off with spending cuts and tax rises in a recession would only intensify the recession and sharpen the pain.
Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt digging a deeper black hole is the failed voodoo economics of fiscal Conservatives who’ve learned nothing from past errors.
And that’s a challenge for Labour’s Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves as they shape an alternative plan to a Tory Party that crashed the economy.