BRITAIN’S economy is plummeting and lacking resilience to future shocks with inadequate responses by Establishment political parties, research published today shows. The Democracy Collaborative’s UK Index of Systemic Trends charts the health of Britain’s political economy across indicators including economic growth, inequality, poverty, financialisation, life expectancy, productivity, environmental degradation and trust in government, revealing it fails on all metrics. From 2015 to 2024, average economic growth was just 0.8 per cent per capita, it found, while, child poverty has risen to 30.5 per cent — up 122.6 per cent since 1970. [...]