What is degrowth and can it save the planet?

The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring

In the run-up to the UK general election, the Labour party’s central offer to the public was a “laser-like” focus on economic growth. Its leader, Keir Starmer, promised to “take the brakes off Britain” and repeatedly said “ensuring economic growth will be fundamental”.