How Britain can build a bridge to economic resilience and national security
The Prime Minister’s speech to Policy Exchange last week took security as its theme: “The next few years will be some of the most dangerous yet the most transformational our country has ever known. So the question we face today is this: Who has the clear plan and bold ideas to deliver a secure future for you and your family? The dangers that threaten our country are real.”
Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves has been warning of an “Age of Insecurity”.
“.. globalisation, as we once knew it, is dead. We must care about where things are made and who owns them…This demands a new approach, one that I call ‘securonomics’…It focuses on the economic security of a nation….Prioritising economic strength and resilience in the face of our uncertain world.”
Behind both these warnings is a more radical critique of the insecurity created by capitalism:
“All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions are swept away,” and “all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air.”
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