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A Lost Decade Worse Than Japan’s Threatens to Change UK Forever

Crumbling infrastructure and overstretched services are symbols of Britain’s economic stagnation since the 2016 Brexit vote

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As the UK buckles under the strain of anemic growth, strikes, fraying infrastructure and record hospital waiting lists, Jason James thinks back to another economic crisis that dominated an earlier part of his banking career: Japan’s infamous “lost decade.”