How to make sure the budget secures the investment Britain needs

By Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics/Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Oxford

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised to “rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment” in the UK. He was speaking at his government’s first international investment summit, an attempt to encourage the finance and business worlds to put more money into the country.

But the government will need much more investment – by both the private and public sectors – than can be drummed up with one summit and an intent to slash red tape if it is to meet its…

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