Yuan Yang

Yuan Yang

Labour — Earley and Woodley

Speaking in the House of Commons on 26 November 2025

Debate

Budget Resolutions

Contribution

I, too, very much enjoy reading the Blue Book. While we are talking about our favourite passages, I wonder what the right hon. Gentleman makes of page 29, which says that “persistent weakness in productivity growth relative to the pre-financial crisis period is more likely to reflect underlying structural trends.” What was going on in the 2010s that meant that the structure of the UK economy was so bad?

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