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Labour puts in the hard yards to win over business community
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As Keir Starmer’s aides tuned into Boris Johnson’s South Tyneside speech to the CBI last Monday, on the alert for any policy details the Labour leader could use for his own speech later that day, they couldn’t believe their luck.
The Conservative government’s relationship with business was already scratchy, after two tax-raising budgets, the shelving of plans to overhaul the hated business rates system, and Johnson’s criticism of the haulage industry during the fuel crisis.
But any emollience the prime minister had hoped to show in his Tyneside speech was overshadowed by his bumbling delivery – including a lengthy digression about Peppa Pig.
Later that same day, quoting the CBI’s first annual report, from 1965, Starmer told business leaders,
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