Osborne might have avoided a total media thumping for his Autumn Statement last week (somehow), but his failure hasn’t gone unnoticed overseas, with the respected US magazine The New Yorker noting:
“With all the theatrics going on in Washington, you might well have missed the most important political and economic news of the week: an official confirmation from the United Kingdom that austerity policies don’t work.”
You can read the piece in full here.
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