UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first budget, delivered this week by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, comes at a time of growing public discontent over the British economy as well as worries about higher inflation, cost of living and rising energy prices. Some of these challenges have been exacerbated by recent global events. However, many are rooted in systemic problems in the national economy that successive governments, both Conservative and Labour, have failed to address. Growi
