The slow death of a Labour buzzword
And what that says about Britain’s place in the world
“It’s dead,” says one Labour MP. “Or perhaps on its deathbed,” adds a wonk. “Securonomics” was a neologism coined in opposition by Rachel Reeves, now the Labour chancellor. It summed up her plan to introduce a variant of President Joe Biden’s industrial policy to Britain. But the term hasn’t appeared in her speeches since before the election. It did not feature in her address to the Labour Party conference in September nor in the budget in October.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Securo-what now?”
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