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George Newth, Lecturer in Politics and member of Reactionary Politics Research Network, University of Bath

In search of Labour’s ‘working people’ – the paradox at the heart of Keir Starmer’s first year in power

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It’s one year since Keir Starmer led the Labour party to a landslide victory. Starmer’s manifesto, “Change” had proposed “securonomics” as a solution to the UK’s many crises. This was sold as a way of ensuring “sustained economic growth as the only route to improving the prosperity of our country and the living standards of working people”.

The document mentioned “working people” a total of 21 times. It was clear this demographic had been identified as the key target beneficiary of “securonomics”, otherwise referred to as “the plan for change”.

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