Matt Clifford
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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I think that Britain has sleepwalked into economic disaster.
The British worker hasn't had a pay rise for 18, 19 years.
If you look at how rich would the country be today if we had grown at the rate we were growing up to the financial crisis, it's equivalent to £15,000 per person of lost output.
That's a lot.
That's like 30 plus percent of GDP per capita.
And...
That matters not because, oh, those people can't buy luxury handbags or, you know, go to Mauritius.
It matters because that's what gives us choices as a country.
Our wealth is what gives us choices.
You know, if you want to invest in the NHS, we need to pay for it.
If you want safer streets, you need to pay for it.
If you want more leisure, we need to pay for it.
And so I think we are a country that's sleepwalked into stagnation.
And this is really, I think, nearly all our other problems are downstream of that.
that we just are not any longer telling a story that people believe about how their lives in future will be better than they are now.
I think this is structural.
I think it's that we've got to the point where, not to blame your colleagues in the media, but anyone who is upset about anything...
You get a hearing.
Yeah, I get a hearing.
But I really think this problem of how do we make the voices heard of the unseen people who lose out from stagnation, I think that's a huge one.
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