What Blair gets wrong about the economy – it is fired by people, not business | Letters

Jonathan Freedland says Tony Blair “would say you can only address [poverty and inequality] once the economy is firing. Maybe” ( Tony Blair says he is all about the future – but his vision is woefully stuck in the past, 29 May ). In fact poverty and inequality are the reasons the economy is misfiring. In the big economic crashes of history, gross inequality has been present. …