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Political comfort blanket masquerading as a growth strategy

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18.03.2026

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

Editor-in-Chief

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Rachel 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........

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