Labour has read its John Maynard Keynes. It unleashed the “animal spirits” of a possible economic bounceback at its first investment summit yesterday, with an upbeat Keir Starmer pledging to “improve Britain’s brand” and promising a land of opportunity for global investors — and some “heritage Yookay“ experience thrown in — cottage pie lunch, dinner in the crypt at St Pauls, and King Charles working his royal charm.
More soberly, reality checks came from the ex-Google titan and investor, Eric Schmidt, who told the Prime Minister: ”You have a tactical leadership problem to achieve this and I think you can pull it off, but you have to figure out a way to get control.”
