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Skint: The Truth About Britain's Broken Economy review: Chilling prospect of how Britain could become a one-party state like China, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


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But one of the solutions floated by Radio 4 economist Tim Harford, on Skint: The Truth About Britain's Broken Economy (Ch4), took that idea literally. Will, the boss of a bicycle manufacturing business called Brompton Bikes, said: 'If we really want to deliver stability into the UK economy, we need to get our governments to set out a cross-party strategy, like China, for the next 25 years. Harford wrote a devastating article in the Daily Mail four years ago, at the height of the pandemic, warning of the insane risks of lockdown

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