If you're serious about growth you need to be serious about women like Trinny

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"For Starmer and Reeves, growth, how to get it, how to stimulate it and how to reap the rewards of it has been a single focus. Get that right and the rest follows. More employment means more tax receipts and more tax receipts mean more money to deliver better services. Or so goes the argument. Various economic interventions have spluttered with a series of false starts, U-turns and dead ends, with UK growth remaining sluggish."

"The UK has underperformed its peers over the last decade, hit by a series of shocks, including the pandemic, the 2022 energy crisis, Brexit, and now the Iran war, leaving growth well below historical averages."

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