Ten years of weak growth and under investment have been exacerbated by the Hobson’s choice of Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit or a disastrous no-deal Brexit.

Cut to vital local government funding and public services, falling real pay and stagnant wage growth and rising child poverty and food bank usage are all part of a toxic cocktail of challenges facing working people.

It’s clear that the outgoing government has not stood up for working people and their families.

But just how bad are things? We’ve put together ten ways in which the economy isn’t working for working people.

Economic mismanagement

1: Stagnant growth

The easiest way to measure the size and health of the economy is to look at GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth.

Boris Johnson recently boasted that the economy is ‘strong and growing’, but this is far from reality.

The latest GDP figures from November show the lowest growth since 2010 – well below half the long-term average.