Best-laid plans: Poor productivity leaves Britain’s public finances looking shaky

Print sectionPrint Rubric: The latest obstacle to closing the deficit: poor productivity Print Headline: Best-laid plans Print Fly Title: The public financesUK Only Article: standard articleIssue: China’s Xi Jinping has more clout than Donald Trump. The world should be wary Fly Title: Best-laid plans
SINCE coming to power in 2010 the Conservatives have seen their plans to balance the fiscal books scuppered time and again. In 2010 the Of