@1dayatatime
On the austerity, its aim was to reduce levels of Government borrowing and debt built up under Labour. In that regard it wasn't that successful (see graph) although one has to ask what levels of debt would have been without the austerity measures. In any event by 2015 the Conservatives have effectively stopped austerity measures saying they would balance the books over a longer time horizon
Austerity never ended, it continued at pace, look at the cuts to council services, to defence spending, to NHS (per capita) and the never ending inflation busting council tax increases, often many times more than inflation.
Interest rates were indeed super low but increasing spending on public services by increasing debt even more would have had the effect of increasing interest rates and inflation
Well, European countries actually did restore public spending but did not see high interest rates or inflation.
On Brexit, not only is that an economic and cultural disaster for the UK, it has frozen Govt, with each PM in turn fighting to keep his or her party together instead of governing the UK.
Oh and Labour would never have given us Truss, the damage she has done to the country is going to cost us far more than the old stuck record of PFI... whose critics can never ever come up with an alternative - then there is banging on about ROI, ignoring the fact that the UK had low Corporation tax rates too, that Germany has much higher CT, the USA higher than the UK rate until last year.
Tax is not the only reason companies move or invest.