Austerity was a disastrous political choice that we are still reeling from | Letters

Readers respond to the economist Paul Krugman’s article about the effects of the Tories’ most defining policy during the coalition yearsPaul Krugman (How the ‘unforced error’ of austerity wrecked Britain, 28 June) hits the nail on the head when he says that there was no economic case for the austerity that the coalition government foisted on us in 2010, the effects of which are still with us. It was a political choice on the part of George Osborne and David Cameron to adv