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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Joanna Partridge

Labour going all out to woo business with ‘prawn cocktail offensive 2.0’

Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was among those to speak to an audience of more than 600 business leaders and international guests at conference last month. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Labour is accelerating meetings with leaders of Britain’s biggest companies, as it steps up its efforts to woo the City after the Conservative party’s mini-budget caused economic chaos.

The diaries of Keir Starmer, his shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, have been full in recent weeks with coffee meetings and dinners, as executives have clamoured to make contact with the Labour frontbench.

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