Financial insecurity, not immigration, is driving populist politics

In her by-election victory speech, the UK Green Party’s newly elected MP, Hannah Spencer, highlighted the link between economic insecurity and political discontent in the country and around the world. Work, she observed, no longer provides the stability it once did. People work hard but cannot put food on the table, buy their children school uniforms, turn on their heating or live off the pension they worked for. The hardships Spencer described align closely with the indicators of financial insecurity I have studied for more than a decade.

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