Here’s another rethink. We opened the nation’s books, we talked to top economic minds, and we discovered it’s not our nation’s finances that are broken, but our economic model. Yes, conditions are tough – but did prime minister Clement Attlee survey the ruins of British cities laid to waste by the Luftwaffe, turn to the British people, and inform them, “awfully sorry, but we’re broke”? No: grave crisis became justification for more ambition, not less, and Labour built the NHS, a welfare state and quality council homes fit for heroes.