Starmer is meeting with businesses this morning in New York to try to convince them to invest in the UK. Or at least turn up to Reeves’ ‘International Investment Summit’ to get the numbers up…
To prove he’s already making successful investment progress the government ‘announced‘ that Starmer has secured a £10 billion deal for US investment company Blackstone to build the biggest AI data centre in Europe over in Blyth. Keir gushed: “New investment such as the one we’ve announced with Blackstone today is a huge vote of confidence in the UK and it proves that Britain is back as a major player on the global stage and we’re open for business.” Sounds impressive, until you realise Starmer is ‘announcing’ six month-old news…
The deal was signed off and publicised widely months before the election on 15th April before getting fully confirmed a few weeks later. Not that the media haven’t dutifully written it up this morning…
Northumberland County Council Tories say Starmer has obviously had nothing to do with the it – they did the negotiating, with some input from the Office for Investment under Sunak. They say “the PM must feel like a bit of a silly sausage.” Has Keir not managed any investment at all since he came into office?
