Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Updated with a new Foreword*An essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist and Labour rising star‘No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy’ Emily Maitlis‘Refreshingly optimistic’ The Times‘Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic’ Rory StewartThere are few who are better placed to investigate Britain’s plight than Torsten Bell, Labour MP for Swansea West and former Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation.In Great Britain? he offers both a clear-eyed diagnosis of the problems facing our country – a uniquely toxic combination of huge inequality and stagnant economic growth – and a bold vision for the alternative.In his treasure trove of enlightening and original analysis, Torsten Bell argues that our era of chaos and cynicism needs neither utopianism nor nostalgia, but a practical patriotism to raise living standards and create a more equal country. This is a book bursting with ideas and infectious hope: Bell passionately points us towards a Britain that we can actually build – a future worth fighting for.‘A roadmap to the new normal’ Observer’Pretty cool’ Alastair Campbell‘A dose of Torstenomics is the only thing that can give us hope’ Amol Rajan‘Spiced with wit, masterful, fact-packed’ Polly Toynbee

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