The next UK government will inherit a country that is more divided and less equipped for future challenges, reeling from austerity and economic stagnation; Brexit; the Covid-19 pandemic; and the war in Ukraine.
The 14-year record of Conservative-led government is not one of simple or singular decline, however, but a series of paradoxes.
Poverty
About a fifth of people live below the relative poverty line — 60 per cent of median income — in line with 2010.
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