{"id":79869,"date":"2025-01-29T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T08:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=79869"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T08:12:25","slug":"labours-plans-for-growth-are-as-ever-focused-on-the-south-east-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/29\/labours-plans-for-growth-are-as-ever-focused-on-the-south-east-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour&#8217;s plans for growth are, as ever, focused on the south-east of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jan\/28\/reeves-plans-to-create-silicon-valley-between-oxford-and-cambridge?utm_term=6799b9561c9ae767f7a54d7eda698f98&amp;utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=GTUK_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian reports this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rachel Reeves is unveiling plans to create \u201cEurope\u2019s Silicon Valley\u201d between Oxford and\u00a0Cambridge\u00a0as she stakes the government\u2019s success on kickstarting economic growth and putting more pounds in people\u2019s pockets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, yet more investment for south-east England then, and very little for anyone else in that case.<\/p>\n<p>It's as if Labour is dedicated to the promotion of regional and actual inequality whilst alienating very large parts of England and the entireties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Political incompetence on this scale is hard to create. Starmer and Reeves are managing it.<\/p>\n<p>How they think they have a hope of being re-elected in 2029 if this is their plan, heaven only knows - and I suspect it is sharing my despair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian reports this morning: Rachel Reeves is unveiling plans to create \u201cEurope\u2019s Silicon Valley\u201d between Oxford and\u00a0Cambridge\u00a0as she stakes the government\u2019s success on<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/29\/labours-plans-for-growth-are-as-ever-focused-on-the-south-east-of-england\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79870,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79869\/revisions\/79870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}