‘Austerity is inevitably painful’: How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast | Politics

Watch the full episode with Michael Gove here.

Aditya’s suggested reading:

• For slalom ride through Michael Gove’s years in power, read The Demented Dalek by the historian Richard J Evans in the London Review of Books

• For more on the economics of the Cameron years, this paper is acute on how the Tories failed to move the UK away from being a country of renters towards a country of makers. Two of its authors will join us for a podcast later in the series.

• And if you want to read how Brexit may have cost the UK 8% of GDP, there’s this paper based on data from the Bank of England