Simon Wren-Lewis: To have another period of austerity after the election "just as foolish" as it was back in 2010

Martha Kearney speaks to the economist Simon Wren-Lewis about austerity

01 April 2015

4 minutes

This clip is from

World at One—01/04/2015

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