My answer is that centre-right politicians used to have a dismissive view about the loss of manufacturing jobs, arguing that they were things of the past and the economy had to adjust. And now they very much do not make that argument. So you have manufacturing nostalgia across the political spectrum
Ben Ansell
Quite how did we end up with European and North American politics dominated by unrealistic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs?
Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels.
