Simon Wren-Lewis, economics professor at Oxford University, writes:
What George Osborne did with his austerity programme was the equivalent of putting a sick patient on a starvation diet accompanied by cold showers. The UK economy without accelerated austerity would still have been in poor shape, but under George Osborne it has been a disaster.
Read more at mainly macro: The final verdict on George Osborne as Chancellor.
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