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Why Liz Truss is right to say 'forecasts are not destiny'

6 August 2022

8:36 PM

6 August 2022

8:36 PM

‘Forecasts are not destiny,’ said Liz Truss in last night’s debate: a remark that has drawn alarm in some quarters. If she genuinely believes that, says Robert Peston, she needs to say what her understanding is of the status and point of economics and economic forecasting. ‘Are we back to Gove’s “experts are discredited”?’ he asks.

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