Synopsis
Robert Peston asks how Britain can compete in the new world economic order. After years of living beyond our means, can we wean ourself off our dependence on consumer spending?
- Programme: The Party's Over: How the West Went Bust
- Episode: 2
- Channel: BBC HD
- Broadcast year: 2011
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