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Britain’s Two Main Parties Are Betting on Bidenomics
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have ruled out ambitious growth strategies.
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You might not think it by watching their weekly jousting session in the House of Commons, but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer agree on an awful lot. Each made their pitch to British businesses this week, and the similarities were far easier to spot than the differences.
Like Sunak, Starmer advocates controlled immigration, investment in infrastructure, incentives for innovation and policies for a better-skilled workforce. Despite media talk of a more permissive “Swiss-style” trade arrangement with the European Union, Starmer made no attempt to relitigate Brexit (Sunak also dismissed the idea). So far, not a cigarette paper between the two.