Not a perfect comparison, and I’ve deliberately omitted the period when pandemic composition effects distorted the numbers. But 14 years of Conservative rule have been associated with stagnant real wages and severe deterioration of public services. This was a well-earned rout
It looks especially awful when you put the U.S.—with which earning were ahead in the early aughts—on the chart from 2007 or so. The costs of austerity.
