It is now more than 30 years since I studied economics in Leeds. Starting less than a fortnight after ‘Black Wednesday’, Nirvana provided a grungy soundtrack to an economy still emerging from recession and inflation over 10%.
Fast forward to the present day and inflation is stubbornly high while the IMF’s latest economic forecast expects the economy to only expand by a meagre 0.4% in 2023.
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