The Tories are in denial about Britain s looming mass unemployment crisis
After a year of propping up a fantasy economy, we need a wave of entrepreneurship to magic up millions of jobs
26 January 2021 • 3:22pm
Schools will eventually re-open. EasyJet and Ryanair will be taking bookings. The gyms will crank up the running machines, and the cocktail waiters can start polishing their glasses again. With the vaccination campaign starting to ramp up, politicians have already started talking about a return to ‘normality’, at least so far as any of any of us can remember what that looked like. The trouble is, we aren’t going to get back to ‘normal’ anytime soon. As soon as the Covid crisis ends we will be facing a new one – mass unemployment.