April will be cruel to UK households, but the economy's problems are much longer term
- Written by David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
Shutterstock/Jane RixThe poet TS Eliot famously proclaimed April to be the “cruellest month”. Writing after surviving a pandemic – the Spanish flu of 1918 – he was referring to the familiar (often misguided) sense of hope that traditionally accompanies the arrival of spring.
From an economic perspective, April 2022 looks...







