How productive is Britain and the average British worker?
The more we make, the bigger the economy: with higher tax and living standards too.
But since the financial crisis, Britain has underperformed and now, the official economic forecaster, is set to deliver a major downgrade, one that will vanish around £20bn of our wealth and heap extra pressure on the chancellor.
It creates a problem for Rachel Reeves that she can only really solve by raising big sums in taxes. But what if the sums are wrong?
New research exclusively for Channel 4 News suggests Britain’s productivity may be on the rise again.
