There's still one glimmer of hope left for our sluggish economy

Business To misquote the phrase originally coined by Bill Clinton adviser James Carville...“it’s growth stupid.” Unless and until this Government can point to some sustained upward momentum in national output Rishi Sunak may as well order the removal vans and hand over the keys to Keir Starmer today. Without growth — and I do not mean eking out a miserable 0.1% a quarter — the Prime Minister cannot hope to claim that the Conservatives are the only party that can be trusted with the economy. Without that he is doomed. Labour may not yet have offered up many big economic ideas of their own, but they do not need to. If they get lucky,…