Healey’s adviser warns ‘you won’t grow the economy just by spending more’

John Healey’s entrepreneurship adviser has warned that growth cannot be achieved by government spending and policy announcements, in a rebuke to the Chancellor and Andy Burnham as they draw up their first budget. Alexandra Depledge, the founder of property start-up Resi, who has been reappointed as entrepreneurship adviser to the Chancellor, wrote on Linkedin that…