The Return of the State: Restructuring Britain for the Widespread Good

Pushed by the Covid-19 disaster, the UK authorities has borrowed massively to avoid wasting jobs, companies and the financial system from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity insurance policies that it had championed for a decade. In consequence, the position of the state is now in sharp focus. The contributors to this quantity assess what that position ought to be and the way it ought to be harnessed for the nice of the British folks in all 4 of its nations. Collectively they current coverage proposals able to producing a brand new social settlement and a long-term, equitable financial restoration post-pandemic. It affords each a imaginative and prescient of a future Britain and a roadmap to getting there.