{"id":8947,"date":"2021-07-09T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8947"},"modified":"2021-07-19T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:58:10","slug":"james-meadway-labours-buy-british-policy-isnt-nostalgia-its-a-smart-response-to-new-realities","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/news\/james-meadway-labours-buy-british-policy-isnt-nostalgia-its-a-smart-response-to-new-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"James Meadway &#8211; Labour\u2019s \u2018Buy British\u2019 policy isn\u2019t nostalgia \u2013 it\u2019s a smart response to new realities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PEF Director James Meadway writes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/09\/labour-buy-british-policy-state-eu\">Guardian on 9.7.21<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Labour\u2019s Buy British call for proper scrutiny and clear rules that would see government money going only to companies that create good jobs and meet clear environmental standards, opens up a new dividing line between the two. Labour\u2019s proposals risk being dismissed as mere nostalgic throwback, but in reality they point to where future economic and political arguments are going&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whatever the patriotic gloss and 1960s-sounding slogan, the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves\u2019s Buy British policy announcement is a genuinely smart response to a newly emerging economic consensus. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-8947","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}