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Here's a question.

Is Labour leader Keir Starmer starting to sound a bit well conservative?

We're not just a pro-business party.

We're a party that is proud of being pro-business,

that respects the contribution profit makes,

to jobs, to growth, and to our tax base.

Welcome to the political fix,

your essential insider guide to Westminster,

from the Financial Times, with me, George Parker.

Coming up, if you want to understand just how conservative Britain really is,

you need only take a look at Keir Starmer's recent speeches,

so argues the FD's chief political commentator, Robert Schrimsley.

We'll be discussing Starmer's conservative path to power later with Robert,

and our white all-editor, Lucy Fisher.

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