Britain stands at a rare strategic inflection point, embrace AI or continue on a path of sluggish economic growth for the foreseeable future. The International Monetary Fund recently forecasted that the energy shocks from the Iran war will hit the UK the hardest of the world’s advanced economies, cutting its estimates for UK growth this […]
Britain is brilliant at starting companies – but we must do more to scale them. We lead Europe for startups per capita and we’re behind only the United States globally for new companies launching in the tech sector. Yet during my time as a Treasury Minister and then Shadow Technology Secretary, I saw a clear […]
The last Conservative government turned Britain into a startup nation. Over 14 years, the UK became home to more billion-dollar tech startups (‘unicorns’) than France and Germany combined; we fostered the world’s third largest AI ecosystem; and in our last year of government, business investment into R&D increased by 30%, to £49 billion. When it […]
