THE Tories have presided over both the worst period of economic growth since the 1920s and the biggest decline in real wages since Napoleonic times, TUC analysis reveals today.

The union confederation also blamed the Conservatives’ failure to deliver on growth for pushing up government debt by the greatest amount in more than a century.

TUC research found that the Conservatives’ response to the banking crisis and Covid-19 pandemic led to Britain having its lowest growth rate since the Great Depression. It fell to a measly 1.2 per cent on average between 2007 and 2019 and 0.8 per cent between 2019 and 2023.