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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katrine Bussey

UK economic policies ‘likely to cause many more deaths than Covid’

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The UK government’s economic policies are “likely” to have caused a “great many more deaths” than the Covid pandemic, an academic has claimed.

Researchers said their “not only shocking but shameful” statistics showed that almost 335,000 more deaths than expected were recorded across Scotland, England and Wales over an eight-year period.

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