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Economics<br />

UK in 2030: older, more unequal and blighted<br />

by Brexit, report predicts<br />

IPPR says leaving EU will require painful trade-offs, adding to challenges of ageing population and<br />

automation of jobs<br />

A car plant in Oxford. By 2030 there will be 600,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, the IPPR predicts.<br />

Photograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images<br />

Patrick Collinson<br />

Thursday <strong>29</strong> December <strong>2016</strong> 00.01 GMT Last modified on Thursday <strong>29</strong> December <strong>2016</strong> 08.30 GMT<br />

Britain faces a decade of disruption after Brexit with low growth, stagnating incomes for the poor and<br />

the public finances at breaking point, according to a bleak analysis by a leading thinktank.<br />

<strong>The</strong> report, Britain in the 2020s, by the Institute of Public Policy Research, says Brexit will<br />

“profoundly reshape the UK … painful trade-offs are almost certain. Growth is expected to be lower,<br />

investment rates worse, and the public finances weaker as a result of Brexit.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> analysis, which draws on data from the OECD, the ONS and numerous economists and<br />

researchers, forecasts a 30% increase in the number of over-65s in the population by 2030, and a<br />

doubling of the number of over-85s. It predicts that the proportion of the population that is non-white<br />

will climb to more than one in five within <strong>12</strong> years.

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