There was an elephant in the room as hundreds of business leaders gathered at the Oval cricket ground in south London to hear Labour’s pre-election pitch to captains of industry on Thursday.
The opposition party had made much of its plan to sweep away zero-hour contracts and reverse many of the Conservative government’s employment laws in recent months. But it was barely mentioned at the conference until Keir Starmer fleetingly declared in his speech that not everyone was likely to be on board.
