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The outcome of the 2017 general election showed the demand for a break with a failed economic model. However, Labour needs to continue to develop its thinking, especially around questions of ownership, institutional reform, the devolution of power, and about wages and quality of work. The author argues that a focus on the everyday economy—those sectors upon which we depend for healthy, happy lives and communities and which employ many people, but which are all too often characterised by low wages, low productivity and low skill—can expose the failings of our present economic settlement and offer a blueprint for Labour to forge a new one. Central to this are questions of democracy, but more needs to be said about redressing the ‘financialisation’ of the everyday economy.
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156794
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Writing in mid-2017, it is very hard for anyone to pretend that class is not a major factor in British politics. After a major financial crisis and the deepest recession since the 1930s, with household incomes stagnating and inequality growing between class, generation and region, we seem a world away from a time when anyone felt able to say ‘we are all middle class now’. In many ways, this reinforces the arguments made by Geoffrey Evans and James Tilley in The New Politics of Class, which is a welcome, thorough and provocative examination of the enduring impact of class on British politics. It is clear that class is still a central determining factor in our politics, that new and old gulfs between sections of our society are widening, and that working class voters in ex-industrial communities are now seen as up-for-grabs, and one of the key constituencies to determine any election. As the writer Jonathan Rutherford noted, the Brexit vote, ‘for the first time since 1945, [gave] the economic losers a democratic victory over the economic winners’.1
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