Labour’s Soft Left Turn on Welfare
Fears that Labour is returning to hawkishness on welfare seem misplaced, but the party is making a pivot to the pandemic’s better-heeled ‘new’ unemployed – one which will do little to foster social solidarity.
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Mareile Pfannebecker
Mareile Pfannebecker is a research associate in critical theory and early modern literature at Strathclyde University. She is the co-author of Work Want Work (Zed, 2020).