Labour must not be trapped by the politics of national decline or revival
Rather than a politics of imaginary growth rates, we need one of real redistribution to those whose incomes are collapsing.
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David Edgerton
David Edgerton is professor of modern British history at King’s College London and the author of books including The Rise and Fall of the British Nation and Britain’s War Machine.
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