Labour leader Keir Starmer’s incoming cabinet has more people of working-class origin than any British cabinet that came before it, and this remarkable feature will surely bear on policymaking. However, various countervailing forces will moderate any latent impulse to veer sharply to the left.
explain how the socioeconomic backgrounds of Labour’s cabinet members will, and will not, bear on policymaking.
If Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the world’s other large oil producers were to shift away from settling their oil trade in dollars, the implications for other commodity markets, global trade patterns, and financial stability would be enormous. But how plausible is this scenario in the foreseeable future?
considers whether Saudi Arabia would ever move away from invoicing its oil trade in US dollars.
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