As growth remains stagnant with a less-than-expected 0.1% rise in November’s GDP Rachel Reeves is right now hosting meetings in Downing Street to discuss ideas to boost growth. Attended only by state regulators…
The lack of government press releases provides an indication of Labour’s embarrassment at the stunt. Reeves is meeting with:
The midday meeting is apparently the first in a “series of check-ins” on the regulators’ growth proposals. Did those 120 Labour-backing business leaders lose their enthusiasm?
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”