In the media | 28 May 2024

Bloomberg TV: UK Election, Is Labour the Party of Business?

Michael Saunders, Senior Policy Advisor at Oxford Economics, joins Lizzy Burden, UK Correspondent at Bloomberg, to discuss the UK Labour Party’s economic plans should it win the upcoming election.

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