Starmer Meets US Business Chiefs to Tout for UK Investment
- Premier and Chancellor Reeves see investment as key to growth
- Blackstone’s Gray, Citigroup’s Fraser among meeting attendees
This article is for subscribers only.
Keir Starmer met US business executives including Blackstone Inc. President Jon Gray, JPMorgan Asset Management Chief Executive Officer Mary Callahan Erdoes and Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, as the UK prime minister seeks to attract investment to boost Britain’s flagging economy.
“A lot of the policy initiatives that we have put in place have come out of discussions like this,” Starmer said at the start of the meeting in New York, which was also attended by the prime minister’s business adviser Varun Chandra. “If we can get into the question of what works, what doesn’t work, how to get the economy to really turbo-charge, what are the ambitions for investment, that really helps us shape our working.”