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The City’s big investment in Starmer’s Labour is about to pay dividends

Reeves’ Mansion House speech shows the corporate takeover of Labour is complete

The City’s big investment in Starmer’s Labour is about to pay dividends
Rachel Reeves told an audience in Leeds that regulation is a "boot on the neck" of business | James Batershill / openDemocracy
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The big question that has increasingly dogged Labour throughout its first year in power, as it lurched from one crisis to the next, putting noses out of joint among everyone from private school parents to PIP claimants, is who is this government actually for?

With Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech last night, we may finally have got our answer – although the clues were there all along.

This is government (paid) for and by the City.