UK newspaper headlines 18 November 2022

You’ve Never Had It So Bad

The politics of Tory self-destruction

Paul Mason
7 min readNov 18, 2022

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Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement is set to plunge British living standards into a steep and sudden fall. Families will see their spending power drop by 7% in two years, as double-digit inflation combines with higher taxes to make them poorer.

That won’t just wipe out all the wage growth of the past decade: it will take the rest of…

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Paul Mason

Journalist, writer and film-maker. Author of How To Stop Fascism.