Will economic growth solve the UK’s problems?

Sceptics say growing the economy favours the rich while Liz Truss claims everyone benefits

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng at a construction site
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng say their growth plan will ‘get Britain moving’
(Image credit: Stefan Rousseau/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Tory MPs are in “open revolt” against Liz Truss and her plan for “growth, growth, growth”, according to reports.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.