The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
We pay a visit to India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, and meet its leader.
Like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he's another muscular Hindu nationalist type, but in holy robes.
And he might be a sign of India's politics to come.
And job seekers pay attention.
We've gathered up some of our readers' best interview questions.
It's the simplest ones that turn out to be the most disarming.
First up, though.
We've been telling you for some time that Britain's biggest ailment is its low growth and low productivity.
Britain's Chancellor or Finance Minister, Rachel Reeves,
would love to blame that on the previous Conservative governments.
This is not about the last 14 months.
It is about the previous 14 years.
The legacy of Brexit.
the pandemic and the damaging decisions by the party opposites.
So when she presented her much-anticipated budget yesterday, her main job was clear.
Today's budget builds on the choices that we have made since July last year.
To cut NHS waiting lists.