🏛️ Politics 2d ago · Anoosh Chakelian

Britain can’t afford to be middle class anymore

New Statesman
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Drivers queue at petrol pumps. Lenders withdraw mortgage offers. Farmers make more money selling fertiliser than growing crops. Rural households and businesses pay double what they did a fortnight ago for heating oil. Flight prices spiral upwards. Britain is feeling the first sparks of a huge shock pulsing its way across the world. Because of its reliance on gas imports, the UK is forecast to be hit harder than almost any other major economy by the impact of the Iran war. Ministers crank up thei

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