The government claims that rebuilding Britain depends on growth. But will the growth strategy work? And even if it does, how much difference would it make?

This report by Stewart Lansley shows that a strategy for recovery needs other levers to mend the broken economy and crumbling public services inherited by Labour. It argues that by harnessing the nation’s abundant, but often misused, resources, it has the capacity to launch a faster programme of renewal than would come from growth alone.