The Observer view on Tory economic policy: only active public investment will cure Britain’s ills | Observer editorial

The government’s reliance on the private sector has led to a UK economy on the brink of recession and a crumbling state The economy will end the year on the brink of recession and it is not hard to see why. After 13 years of Conservative misrule that reached its nadir last year during Liz Truss’s brief tenure as prime minister, the country is crawling towards a light that flickers dimly. Even the so-called recovery since Truss’s calamitous mini-budget has proved a mirage. Offic