SIR – Much of the talk about a “technical” recession (report, telegraph.co.uk, February 15) overlooks the true story of GDP. GDP per capita has fallen every quarter since early 2022 and is now 1.7 per cent smaller. The Conservatives have presided over the longest contraction of GDP per capita since 1955. A change of government to Labour will not improve this. It’s scandalous that 4,000 people a day are signed off as “sick”. We can continue to treat this malaise by importing a population the size
Good evening. Michael Gove has labelled Sir Keir Starmer the “jellyfish of politics” as he took aim at the Labour leader over his decision to ditch his flagship £28bn green investment pledge. Elsewhere, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the sacking of the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces.
SIR – I am not old enough to remember 1937, with which the present moment has been compared, but I can remember the aftermath of the Second World War. People who had fought – as well as those who, for sound reasons, had stayed at home – all expressed dismay over how unprepared Britain had been, despite the warnings from some politicians and the military. Rishi Sunak’s comments about the British military being a “voluntary force” (“PM forced to rule out Army draft as Russian threat rises”, report