Keir Starmer invokes Margaret Thatcher as he goes for growth

Labour hails Thatcher and Trump, pledging to “cut the weeds of regulation”

Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president has just set out with our own dynamism… Every country has to do it.”

Labour must make economic growth ideas work this time

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is seeking to inject optimism into the economy and a sense that Labour can get things done.

Nightmare for Keir Starmer as Government approval rating slumps to record low

The Prime Minister is facing glum polling in a week when he is hoping to revive hopes of economic growth.

Starmer vows to clear ‘regulatory weeds’ ahead of Reeves growth speech

Writing in The Times, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer criticised the ‘morass of regulation that effectively bans billions of pounds’ of investment. Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “clear out the regulatory weeds” to encourage growth, as Rachel Reeves will say that Britain has been “held back” and “accepted stagnation” in a major economic speech. The Prime Minister invoked his New Labour predecessors and Margaret Thatcher, and said that for “too lo…

Reeves vows to 'fight for growth' with launch of 'Europe's Silicon Valley', as Starmer invokes spirit of Thatcher

Rachel Reeves will pledge to "fight" to grow Britain's economy on Wednesday, as she warns that the country has "stagnated" for years.

Keir Starmer invokes Margaret Thatcher as he goes for growth

We must ‘cure the sickness of stagnation and decline’ in Britain, the PM says while taking aim at ‘overreach’ by watchdogs