What would a Labour government mean for the UK economy?

05/31/24 • 30 min

The snap UK general election on July 4th is very likely to result in a Labour government. Paul Diggle and Luke Bartholomew talk to Lizzy Galbraith about what this might mean for the economy – from fiscal policy and planning reform, to green industrial policy and the approach to the EU.

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Macro Bytes - What would a Labour government mean for the UK economy?

Transcript

Paul Diggle

Hello and welcome to Macro Bytes the economics and politics podcast from abrdn. My name is Paul Diggle

Luke Bartholomew

And I'm Luke Bartholomew.

Paul Diggle

And today we are talking about the UK election. There will be a general election in the UK on the 4th of July, we're going to talk about the economic reasoning that went into calling that snap election, the possible result, and most importantly, the potential economic and investor implicati