The UK economy has been misdiagnosed

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The UK’s Conservative government recently announced new minimum income requirements for skilled worker visas while wages for its own citizens stopped growing meaningfully in 2007.

The strain on livelihoods led to the biggest wave of labor strikes in decades last year.

Tomorrow, the Weekend Brief will look at the numbers revealing a huge misdiagnosis of what the once-formidable British economy requires as the country heads into a general election next year.

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