The Economist endorses the Labour Party to form the next government.
"It has the greatest chance of tackling the biggest problem that Britain faces: a chronic and debilitating lack of economic growth."
A striking moment. Not merely that Cummings wore an Elon Musk T-shirt on his first day in office, but the idea that the disruption of Brexit is attractive and good for “disrupters” like Musk is the essence of the Johnson/Cummings project. TBC.
“Brexit [uncertainty] made it too risky to put a Gigafactory in the UK,” perhaps worlds greatest entrepreneur Elon Musk told AutoExpress at launch of Berlin European electric car/battery plant - NB Telegraph report PMs GE speech at electric car plant...
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A factoid about a Keir Starmer govt. 13% of the shadow cabinet are privately-educated. If it enters govt, that would make it the most state-educated cabinet since at least 1945. More so than Blair's first (32%), Wilson's (35%) or Attlee's (25%).
Fair to say Labour sees national service as a gift to mobilise its younger voters, judging by its tiktok channel (and much punchier on the plan than broadcast/print)