For years, the Tories said austerity was over. But look around: it's getting worse, and there's more to come | John Harris

Since 2010, England has lost just over 1,400 of the children's centres that the last Labour government set up to tackle exactly the developmental issues that now seem to have exploded.

Even if a lot of what sits behind those figures is confounding and complicated, it is not hard to join the relevant dots from these heartbreaking problems to the defining political fact of the last 14 years: austerity.

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