Labour unveils plan to create a million new jobs
Jeremy Corbyn Labour has unveiled a multibillion-pound industrial strategy to create a million new jobs, just as official data shows the country slipping into a Brexit slump.
Vowing to end deindustrialisation, the party is pledging to pump investment into key sectors to fire the UK’s economy which is now the slowest-growing among advanced nations.
The key initiative would also bid to ensure wealth and opportunity is spread across the country, amid official statistics revealing the UK to have the highest levels of regional inequality in Europe.
Writing exclusively for The Independent, Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow Business Secretary, promised a Labour government would unleash the untapped potential of every part of the country.
But the strategy also marks the start of an ...
