industrial strategy

This is a live recording from the New Statesman Media Group's Path to Power conference which delved inside the Labour Party machine as it gears up for an election in 2024.

In this session, hosted by Sarah Dawood - senior associate editor at the New Statesman, we look at Labour's mission for the UK to become a clean energy superpower. This panel was supported by Lloyds Banking Group.

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Some of the world's biggest companies are highlighting the deteriorating investment climate in the UK.

An investigation by the Bloomberg has found business leaders believe the government has failed to meet the twin challenges of Brexit and the foreign subsidies arms race.

Archie Norman, Chairman of Marks & Spencer, speaks to Bloomberg Radio's Caroline Hepker about the relationship between business and government post-Brexit. He says the UK government needs a profound industrial strategy to help the country compete on the world stage.

Britain’s Post-Brexit Policy Drift Alarms World’s Executives: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-11/brexit-hurts-uk-investment-appeal-hasn-t-reduced-tax-or-regulation-execs-say?srnd=premium-uk

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President Biden came into office with an incredibly slim legislative majority. And yet despite just 50 Democratic seats in the Senate, the first two years of Biden's Presidency saw the passage of some extremely ambitious laws. The potential exists for the infrastructure bill, the CHIPS Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act to reshape the economy in ways that we haven't seen in a long time. Brian Deese has been the head of the National Economic Council these last two years, and was thus directly involved in the passage and shaping of these laws. So what will they accomplish, and how will they ultimately be judged. We spoke to Brian in his final week in the NEC role about this new era of "industrial strategy", and what he learned during this two-year stint.

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