Analysis: Keir Starmer’s recent CBI speech is part of sustained attempt to prove party can run tight economic ship

As Keir Starmer’s aides tuned into Boris Johnson’s South Tyneside speech to the CBI last Monday, on the alert for any policy details the Labour leader could use for his own speech later that day, they couldn’t believe their luck.

The Conservative government’s relationship with business was already scratchy, after two tax-raising budgets, the shelving of plans to overhaul the hated business rates system, and Johnson’s criticism of the haulage industry during the fuel crisis.

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