'Sustainable finance': Labour steps up efforts to woo business leaders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "The Labour Party should continue to focus on key regulatory reforms - as well as public funding where appropriate and sufficiently catalytic - to ensure the UK would compete with the US, EU and elsewhere in the global race for green investment, and the growth, jobs and rise in living standards which inevitably follow.
61% : The attacks on Labour's green spending plans have prompted some Party insiders to call for the £28bn annual target to be scrapped, sparking speculation it could yet be diluted or shelved, especially if the government pushes through further tax cuts as part of the next Budget.
59% : In the past few days the Opposition has published a new report on its "long term plan for government business relations", its Financing Growth report setting out its plans for financial services, and a new Business Partnership for Growth, which was released yesterday to coincide with its annual business conference in London.
57% : At the conference Labour leader Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out their pitch to senior business leaders, including a controversial commitment not to reinstate the tax on bankers' bonuses and a surprise pledge to cap corporation tax at the current 25 per cent rate.
53% : "If we expect business to invest in Britain, then tax rates cannot shoot up and down like a yo-yo, according to each political whim," said Reeves.
48% : "She added that a Labour government would seek to provide businesses and investors with a period of stability, including through a commitment to retain tax breaks designed to drive business investment.
46% : "I want to be crystal clear about this, we are going to level up workers' rights in a way that has not been attempted for decades," he said.

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