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Poland’s stunning success should be discomforting for Britain

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The number of Poles in this country is now about 700,000 , down from about a million at the peak in 2017 .

Since the global financial crisis ( GFC ), the Polish economy has grown at an average rate of 3.4pc per annum.

Poland underwent a policy of shock therapy after communism collapsed in 1989 .

In 1991 , Poland ’s economy was 2.3 times the size of Hungary 's, today it is almost four times.

Critics will say that it has benefited enormously from disbursements by the EU .

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk recently said that by the end of the decade Poland will have a higher income per capita than the UKSadly , that cannot be said for the UK which has strangled growth through high rates of taxation and excessive regulation.

Could we imagine British plumbers relocating to Poland ?.