Can a ‘back to work’ budget boost UK economic growth?

The Finance Minister has made getting Britons back to work a central part of his economic growth plan.

The UK economy is still in worse shape than it was before the pandemic.

One reason is that since the outbreak of COVID-19, more than half a million British workers have disappeared from the workforce, despite unemployment at historically low levels.

The collapse in productivity has dealt a devastating blow to the struggling UK economy. Getting these lost employees back to work is now at the heart of the Finance Minister’s budget plan.

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