Starmer supplied a stodgy speech on investment to the International Investment Summit. Lobby hacks have enthusiastically written up his plegdge to “rip up” regulation and cut bureaucracy – while Labour’s new legislation does largely the opposite…

After the speech Starmer sat in for a 30-minute Q&A with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose first comment was: “I was shocked when Labour said it was in favour of growth.” Starmer sulkily replied that “wealth creation is the number one mission of a Labour government”…

The Q&A was watched live on LinkedIn, where it was hosted, by a pitiful average of 440 people. Hilariously about 20 minutes of the entire chat was taken up by AI as business leaders constantly rediverted to the topic. Starmer just repeatedly said it’s a “real game-changer.” Maybe there was a good reason Sunak bothered to invite Elon Musk to chat about the new technology – especially as Musk has just invented AI-powered robots…