Tuesday briefing: How Keir Starmer pitched his vision of Britain to big business
In today’s newsletter: At a summit in London on Monday, the prime minister tried to stir investment in Britain – here’s how it went
Elton John and Michelin meals: Labour pulls out all the stops to woo investors
‘You are pivotal to this great cause of our times,’ Keir Starmer tells global bosses in London as he targets wealth creation
Starmer tries – and fails – to keep up with the business in-crowd jargon
When CEOs are dangling investment promises worth billions, all other promises get burned – and any ability to speak disappears
The Guardian view on Labour wooing private investors: don’t trade social protections for growth
Editorial: If Labour is committed to championing ‘working people’, the British state must mediate between workers and capital, rejecting corporate dominance
Ministers will have to comply with tougher rules on declaring gifts, MPs told – as it happened
Cabinet Office minister Ellie Reeves says Labour is closing ‘Tory freebies loophole’ over declaring hospitality
Rolling stock firm’s £80m dividend payout fuels calls for UK rail nationalisation
Unions describe Porterbrook’s figures, despite downturn in wider rail industry’s revenues, as ‘shocking but unsurprising’
Elon Musk was not barred from UK investment summit, says cabinet minister
SpaceX owner would be invited in future if he had investment streams the UK could bid for, says Peter Kyle
Who will attend the UK investment summit and what is on the agenda?
Guests at all-day event include the NHS boss, execs from Google, BlackRock and Aviva – and Gareth Southgate
Keir Starmer will promise to slash red tape as he hosts investment summit
Unions express concern as PM to say government will ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’
Rachel Reeves must keep promise to ease business rates burden, say retailers
Plea comes as analysis warns of £2.7bn tax hike mainly affecting smaller retail, leisure and hospitality firms
Starmer walks fine line between needs of big business and those of working people
There is discomfort in Labour’s ranks over way forward as PM prepares to welcome powerful financiers to London investment summit
Labour’s challenge is complicated by the triumph of finance. That’s bad news for UK plc
To get the necessary investment, Labour must bring the financial sector onboard while diluting its often malign influence
Labour MPs urge Reeves to spend tens of billions more on ailing public services
About 70 colleagues have written to chancellor ahead of budget pleading for her to commit to rewriting fiscal rules
How Labour promises have left Rachel Reeves with a giant budget headache
Frustration grows with chancellor locked away in Treasury and facing competing challenges for her historic speech
Starmer steps into cabinet row over P&O to rescue global summit in London
The PM has backed transport secretary Louise Haigh after she called ferry firm a ‘rogue operator’, threatening investment summit