Last year Keir Starmer had an invitation for bosses at Labour’s first party conference in power in 15 years: “You can have your finger prints on our policy … you can shape it.” Fresh from love-bombing corporate Britain before his election landslide, the prime minister told a sold-out “business day” audience at its Liverpool get-together that he wanted his new government to “partner” with industry.
“You have the right to badger us … Our decisions will be better if we are talking to you and taking into account what you say,” Starmer said.
