As of today, we now have four years’ worth of GDP figures since the UK first went into recession — and they don’t look pretty. By this point in the 1930s, we’d already fully
recovered from the Great Depression. This time, we’re still more than 4 per cent below where we were at the start of 2008:
And the international comparison isn’t very flattering either:
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