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The Labour Party held its annual conference in Liverpool last week. Here’s Resilient Economy’s take on what we saw and heard.

A resilient care system for a resilient economy?
I can think of few problems as important and urgent as how we provide care for adults who are unable to care for themselves through physical and mental impairment. It’s

‘Rewiring the State’ is a missed opportunity to focus on economic resilience.
Rewiring the State rests on the desire to keep central and local governments within self-imposed, entirely unscientific, and hugely damaging fiscal rules. Resilience has been replaced by the idea that

The UK government’s Pensions Commission threatens UK private sector resilience.
If the government’s Pensions Commission applied the macroeconomics of a modern money economy, they’d have written a very different report…and pensioners and the planet would both be better off. 15

May 2026’s election results in England, Scotland, and Wales offer an opportunity for real change.
The past forty years of neoliberalism, with the reliance on the market for everything, and a default position of turning away from public money, have hollowed out our economy and