Is business loving Labour?
This Is Why
Sky News
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The shadow chancellor said she’d cap corporation tax at 25% for five years if she’s the one moving into 11 Downing Street.
But when asked by Sky News if Labour will drop plans to spend £28bn a year on green energy, she wasn’t so committed.
On the Sky News Daily, Sophy Ridge sits in for Niall Paterson to discuss if Labour is convincing business with its message. She’s joined by economics and data editor Ed Conway.
Plus, Paul Drechsler, president of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) - and both a former CBI president and ex-prime minister David Cameron's 'skills tsar' - to find out why he believes that Labour is "winning" the economic argument.
Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:30.9 | Hello, it's Sophie in Westminster on this episode. Neil's been doing some TV and podcast |
| 1:36.0 | double shifts this week, so I've taken this episode off its hands. Now, there aren't many |
| 1:41.9 | office workers who don't love an away day. |
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| 2:04.1 | This is Labor, getting hundreds of business leaders out of the office to say, |
| 2:08.9 | we're credible, back us before the election, we'll be the government business want and need. |
| 2:15.0 | And it's been happening in a pretty decent setting, right alongside one of the country's most famous sports pictures, |
| 2:18.2 | the Oval, a 15-minute walk from Westminster where we are. |
| 2:24.3 | Sir Kier Stama and Rachel Reeves, maybe Downing Street's next residence, with their front and centre to talk through their offer. But does it all stack up? Is business convinced by labour? |
| 2:31.0 | That's what we're going to be exploring on this Sky News Daily. We've Ed Conway here, |
| 2:35.9 | our economics and data editor, plus the former CBI president, now president of the Society of Chemical |
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