Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer like to say that economic growth is the defining mission of this government, but as the latest data shows it’s starting to resemble Mission Impossible.

While the government deserves credit for addressing some of the deep-rooted issues that have held back growth for so long – whether though planning reform or productivity-boosting infrastructure projects – they’ve undermined their own ambitions from day one by fundamentally misunderstanding the growth recipe and its key ingredient; a confident private sector able to invest, innovate and expand.

Given that the........

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