Imagination needed to build a new UK economy | Letters

Letters: Greg Delaney, Richard Tudway and Jacqueline Darby respond to an article by Larry Elliott

I couldn’t agree more with Larry Elliott that we now have a chance to build a new economy for the country . However, I disagree with his declinist “potted modern economic history of Britain”. Historians like David Edgerton have shown that, far from Britain being on an inexorable downward trajectory from the second half of the 19th century, the UK over that period became a global economic power, outpacing many other modern industrialised nations, despite fighting two world wars.

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