Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is the sociologist and political economist Will Davies.

We spoke about Will's recent article in the London Review of Books titled A Crisis in Credibility, Labour's Conundrum.

We discussed the nature of the economic agenda that Labour has adopted in its attempt to break out of the low growth and low productivity rates that have characterised the UK economy in recent years.

We chatted about the extent to which the Stama Reeves project emulates and also diverges from the Biden administration's economic policies and the left de-risking critique

of so-called modern supply-side economics. We also touch briefly on Elon Musk's recent

extraordinary attack on the UK government and his other interventions in European politics.

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