The Independent By Adam Forrest
Britain’s public services are now “crumbling” and face a state of “perpetual” crisis, according to a stark warning from the nation’s leading government think tank.
The Institute for Government (IfG) said the UK’s “dire” public services were performing worse than they did before Covid – and much worse than when the Conservatives came to power in 2010.
In a bleak assessment, the respected think tank pointed to funding cuts during austerity and the disruption caused by recent strikes as being behind the worsening state of the NHS, schools, courts and prisons…
