The prawns have been defrosted, the Marie Rose sauce decanted and the lettuce shredded: Labour is once again wooing big businesses. Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have stepped up their efforts to win over the City, with one lobbyist revealing he had been invited to breakfast with shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds “about a dozen times in the past few months”.
Of course, meetings are one thing, cash is another matter. Labour raised less than half as much as the Tories in the first quarter of this year, but it did include £500,000 from Gary Lubner, the former boss of Autoglass. It will hope for more to fund its general election campaign.
