Political comfort blanket masquerading as a growth strategy
Wednesday 18 March 2026 6:01 am | Updated: Tuesday 17 March 2026 6:34 pm
Political comfort blanket masquerading as a growth strategy
By: Christian May
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Add as a preferred source on GoogleRachel Reeves delivered the Mais Lecture in London. Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Rachel Reeves has warned that we’ve entered “an age of insecurity” – and she wasn’t referring to Keir Starmer’s precarious grip on power.
In declaring that “globalisation as we’ve known it is over” the Chancellor set out her response to this hard-edged new reality, focusing on regional growth, closer ties with the EU and a robust AI strategy.
The last of these is the most sensible, or at least........
