Peter Franklin: A plan exists to save Britain from its growing debt crisis - but are we brave enough to do it?

Peter Franklin: A plan exists to save Britain from its growing debt crisis - but are we brave enough to do it?

Peter Franklin is an Associate Editor of UnHerd.  When she was Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel would often remind her audiences that Europe accounts for 7 per cent of the world’s population, 25 per cent of its GDP and 50 per cent of its social spending. Those figures have altered somewhat over time, but the essential point still stands: European welfarism — the British version included — is a global outlier. In an era when the West no longe…