How the Right Broke Britain

<p><b><i>How the Right Broke Britain</i> is an urgent book about the state of Britain in the 2020s, from leading journalist and bestselling author Will Hutton.</b></p><p>Rarely has a country seen as many interlinked crises as Britain is now enduring: a turbulent economy, rising living costs, an increasingly divided society, and the looming break up of the United Kingdom.</p><p>Will Hutton argues that it is the absolute dominance of a neoliberal consensus that has broken Britain, and that we need a new economic, social and political settlement if the country is not to become even poorer and more irrelevant.</p><p>This major new book examines the failures of the right-wing ideology that has dominated Britain for an entire generation. Hutton exposes a pattern of minority leadership marked by lies and corruption, upheld by a broken first-past-the-post electoral system. A new kind of politics is urgently needed, one that harnesses the power of the collective to transform our economy, leadership and society for the better.</p><p>Writing more than two decades on from his generation-defining <i>The State We're In</i>, which has sold a third of a million copies, Hutton once again captures Britain's anxieties and, more hopefully, its capacity for change.</p>