Rachel Reeves’s recent Mais Lecture set out a powerful framing for Labour’s planned decade of national renewal, adding further detail to what is already being called ‘securonomics’. As Tom Collinge has written for Progressive Britain already, it is rare for front-line politicians to offer such a coherent argument and analysis
What Labour can learn from the European centre-left In today’s turbulent world, the concept of security takes on new dimensions, transcending global complexities to touch the lives of individuals everywhere. Who better to shape this narrative into political action than social democrats? Security at work is not synonymous with stagnation;
How can Labour bolster the UK’s cybersecurity in line with the framework set out in the ‘securonomics’ agenda and its modern industrial strategy? Business, our personal lives and even our nation’s critical infrastructure are increasingly dependent on cyberspace. While the technology brings benefits, it also exposes us to new risks,
What can we learn from the way global unrest has changed labor relations and the debate about economic security in Germany? The pandemic, followed by the war in Ukraine, has brought into sharp focus the way domestic/local economies down to the level of the workplace are influenced by the global
What can Labour learn from its European counterparts to support its mission for prosperity and security at work? Against a backdrop of a more dangerous world, there is an increasing sense of a need for security, in every sense of the word. Labour’s missions for a better Britain depend on
Can Labour and its European counterparts learn from each other to re-envision a brighter future of work? From Covid-19 to Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, the profile of the risks and threats facing democratic politics and working people around the world has changed. Security- security at work, economic security and
A new politics of work could address issues domestic and international, can Labour develop one? Whether we like it or not, work is central to most of our lives. Often though, the forces that shape it are is beyond our control. At the macro level, the changing global economy, shocks
Last month the head of Britain’s MI5 joined his counterpart at the American FBI to issue an unprecedented warning. China, he said, represents the single greatest threat to the economic and national security of the West. The threat comes not only from the increasing role Chinese state capital plays in
Despite calls from the Bank of England for workers to show wage restraint as inflation increases, the current cost-of-living crisis demands much greater urgency in creating the means for working people to lay claim to the value of what they do at work. As we argued in a recent paper
Most of us spend most of our time at work. Work is what we do, where we go, who we know and how we get on in life. But while they might have a lot to say about salaries or employment figures, our politicians have less to offer when it
