What Politicians Won’t Tell You About the Economy

Are you being misled about the state of the UK economy? What really went wrong? And how do we fix it? Vicky Pryce was a top economist inside the civil service, and worked for years in the private sector. Her latest book is Mismanaged Decline: What Politicians Won't Tell You About the Economy (https://amzn.eu/d/0kD8EVO).

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Chapters:

00:00 - Ad - Do You Need Help With A Financial Decision? 

01:07 - Why Do Politicians Lie?

11:15 - Investment

17:21 - Tide ad

18:31 - Productivity

26:25 - Austerity and Brexit

31:51 - Vanta ad

31:56 - How To Fix The UK

41:13 - How Much Waste Is There?

49:16 - The Taxpayer Always Pays

01:02:14 - What’s Going To Change It?