Why Britain is broke, with Ed Conway

The Bank of England can't break the cycle of economic pain.

The UK is has higher inflation than any other G7 country.

Ed Conway, Economics editor for Sky News, joins the New Statesman podcast to explain why Britain appears caught in a “contagious” cycle of economic pain – and why Rishi Sunak and the Bank of England appear unable to break it.

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