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Sir Keir Starmer has promised that “a strenuous growth of the wire into all the decisions in the cabinet”, because at a meeting with higher executives in the city of London, he called a new approach to politics.
Downing Street said that in the future all the Cabinet ministers would have to “set up credentials for the growth of new policies to get the approval of their cabinet colleagues.”
“The impact of the growth of the proposal will be subject to the same strict estimate that is already related to new public consumption,” 10 was added.
Starmer’s change in Whitehall’s “Wite Round” procedure for cabinet decisions – in which cabinet ministers are advised about new policies – focusing on the potential of the growth of new policies is intended.
“Everything must be seen through the question of whether it is pro-Rast,” Starmer told business executives on Tuesday morning.
The message arrived as Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares for a growth speech on Wednesday in which they will signal support for a Third runway at Heathrow AirportThe policy previously opposed by high cabinet members, as did the Prime Minister himself.
Starmer and Reeves met executives in London on Tuesday, where they both accepted the extremely bull tone about the prospects for British economycontrary to their gloomy rhetoric last year.
Business leaders warned that Reeves’ insistence was that conservatives had handed it to her “the worst economic heritage” of any Government in the UK since the Second World War suffered confidence from the economy.
They also criticized the Work Government for the introduction of measures that executives say they will reach growth including a National Insurance of £ 25 billion About employers and new Labor Laws.
At breakfast with a round table, Reeves adopted a much more bull tone than last year. “The role of the Government is to shout about all the incredible things we do as a country,” she said.
“We want to work with you in business to present all the great things that are going to us,” she added.
Reeves will use his speech on Wednesday to promise to “go on to grow faster”, including the spread of the Greenlight Airport in the southeast, a move that caused unrest in working circles.
In the last home of the Municipality, he voted at the third runway in Heathrow in 2018, seven members of the current cabinet voted against him, including Starmer. The others were Ed Miliband, Steve Reed, Lisa Nandy, Darren Jones, Anneliese Dodds and Hilary Benn.
Miliband, the Climate Change Secretary, had previously strongly opposed Heathrow’s expansion but indicated Will not resign from the cabinet over the new politics.
On Monday night, Reeves told MPs Labour MPS to support the Government growth program, despite the nervousness on the left of the party to neglect the interests of the consumer and to get too close to the big business.
In the meantime, Reeves will also promise to simplify the planning system on Wednesday and confirm plans for relaxation of the rules because of the publication of some of the excess of £ 160 billion in pension schemes with defined fees.
Corporate leaders at the City Meeting were Charlie Nunn from Lloyds Banking Group, Marco Amitrano from PWC, Jennie Daly from Taylor Wimpey and Paul Golding of Pinewood.
Last week, the PWC research of the main executives conducted in October and early November-loud before Labour’s tax budget on October 30-said that Britain was the second most attractive country for investments behind the US.
Golding told reporters that his film production company will be able to drive the recent increase in the Government in the national insurance contribution and new employment laws, but urged Reeves not to increase business rates.
“Don’t tinker – stable as she goes,” he said. “The last thing we want to see is to reject business rates in the industry.”
