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Regulatory reforms pledge by UK PM Starmer draws mixed reaction

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Keir Starmer speaking to participants at the Int. Investment Summit. Photo: Jonathan Brady/Getty Images

Is Keir Starmer’s plan to remove regulatory obstacles to investment just empty rhetoric, or does it signal the launch of an ambitious business strategy?

Some of the world’s biggest and richest firms and their bosses mixed with policymakers at an International Investment Summit at the City of London’s prestigious Guildhall on Monday night. Participants came from the US, the Gulf, Asia and beyond.

It was significant because for the first time a UK government