Blaming Labour won't work this time – the Tories will have to own this crisis | Larry Elliott

Conservatives laid post-2008 damage at the opposition’s door. This time they will be held accountable for their response to coronavirus, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliot

Throughout history, pandemics have often had profound economic effects. The most famous of all, the Black Death of the mid-14th century, wiped out between a third and two-fifths of the population of western Europe. The labour shortages that followed are credited with hastening the end of the feudal system.

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