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The Financial Times: Stagnation nation: governing the UK when 'there is no money'

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Jeremy Hunt, Britain's chancellor, will look on the bright side this week. He has no choice: his Autumn Statement comes at the start of an election year in which menacing clouds hang over the economy and a Conservative government is languishing in the opinion polls.

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