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Liam Halligan: We have to get out of this high-debt, high-tax, low-growth doom loop

More and more economists now warn of fiscal meltdown – not least because trade unions and economically-illiterate Labour MPs and activists, having installed Andy Burnham in Downing Street, are pushing for borrowing and spending to increase further still.

Liam Halligan: We have to get out of this high-debt, high-tax, low-growth doom loop

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More and more economists now warn of fiscal meltdown – not least because trade unions and economically-illiterate Labour MPs and activists, having installed Andy Burnham in Downing Street, are pushing for...

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More and more economists now warn of fiscal meltdown – not least because trade unions and economically-illiterate Labour MPs and activists, having installed Andy Burnham in Downing Street, are pushing for borrowing and spending to increase further still.

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More and more economists now warn of fiscal meltdown – not least because trade unions and economically-illiterate Labour MPs and activists, having installed Andy Burnham in Downing Street, are pushing for borrowing and spending to increase further still.

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