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Go to Spectey House shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by

Katie Bulls and Kate Andrews. Now Katie this morning of course it's the government's

big investment summit happening in the guild hall in London.

Talk us through what Labour's hoping to get out of today.

So this is a pledge they made during the election campaign previously to have an investment

summit in the first 100 days.

Something Rachel reads spoke for me about just before the polling day, which I read in the magazine.

And I think the idea was, hit the ground running, shows some momentum and try and bounce off the energy that comes from a big election win and this idea of

stability for the next five years by saying we are a liquid place to do business.

It's as we spoke about briefly on the podcast last week, one of the issues is the budget has not taken place yet,

so lots of businesses feel as though it would not be better to have an investment summit with lots of, you know,

CEOs trillions per pounds worth of

capital was what we're told you know coming to London when they have more clarity

on what is going to be asked of business and what the general situation looks like

it is a place to invest.

So that would be after the budget.

And then I think secondly you've also had a for all from Friday night onwards where initially at least you had one of the big

investment decisions was put in doubt because you had Louise Haig and Angela Rayna last week talking about their

workers rights package and in that was very critical of P&O ferries.

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