Labour going all out to woo business with ‘prawn cocktail offensive 2.0’

Senior figures holding meetings with leaders of UK's biggest firms as they strive to be party of government

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Labour is accelerating meetings with leaders of Britain's biggest companies, as it steps up its efforts to woo the City after the Conservative party's mini-budget caused economic chaos.

The diaries of Keir Starmer, his shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, have been full in recent weeks with coffee meetings and dinners, as executives have clamoured to make contact with the Labour frontbench.