Labour’s big worry is no one will feel record spending surge


Economic downturn: Shoppers walk on Regent Street in London. The United Kingdom is facing higher interest rates and abysmal levels of productivity leading to persistently weak growth. — Reuters

BRITAIN’s Labour government will make an historic investment into the country’s battered public services this week – a £300bil (US$406bil) uplift for areas such as health care, education and transport, amounting to the largest sustained funding increase since at least 2010. 

The danger is the public won’t notice.

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