A lost decade worse than Japan’s threatens to change UK forever

Crumbling infrastructure and overstretched services are symbols of Britain’s economic stagnation since the 2016 Brexit vote

12 March 2023 - 19:54 By Tom Rees, Andrew Atkinson and Philip Aldrick

As the UK buckles under the strain of anaemic growth, strikes, fraying infrastructure and record hospital waiting lists, Jason James thinks back to another economic crisis that dominated an earlier part of his banking career: Japan’s infamous “lost decade”...