> Coalition and Conservative governments in office from 2010 to 2019 used the term, and it was applied again by many observers to describe Conservative Party policies from 2021 to 2024, during the cost of living crisis.
People use terms, they're often wrong. The last few years since 2019 we've been breaking ever greater records on state spending and borrowing, this is not austerity.
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> Coalition and Conservative governments in office from 2010 to 2019 used the term, and it was applied again by many observers to describe Conservative Party policies from 2021 to 2024, during the cost of living crisis.
2024, last year, is "a long time ago"?
People use terms, they're often wrong. The last few years since 2019 we've been breaking ever greater records on state spending and borrowing, this is not austerity.