Narrating the economy: can Starmer and Reeves bring coherence back to UK economic policy?
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 32 Number 2 & 3 (2024)
Narrating the economy: can Starmer and Reeves bring coherence back to UK economic policy?
Kate Alexander-Shaw pages 69-77
Abstract
Governments need an economic policy narrative that can organise their ideas, stabilise uncertainty and provide a framework for making and explaining their policy choices. Since 2016, economic policy in the UK has lacked any coherent narrative. Starmer and Reeves have now set out their diagnosis of the UK’s problems, but as long as Labour’s economic policy is driven primarily by their fiscal rules, the link from diagnosis to policy prescriptions will be broken.
To cite this article
Kate Alexander-Shaw (2024) Narrating the economy: can Starmer and Reeves bring coherence back to UK economic policy?, Renewal, 32(2 & 3 ), 69-77