Five flops from Labour’s investment summit

It’s investment summit day for Sir Keir’s Labour government and, like much else about Starmer’s reign, it hasn’t got off to the greatest start. Despite drafting in the King to win over big business, the Starmer army has still managed to rather make a mess of proceedings. From reckless cabinet minister comments to embarrassing email errors, Mr S has pulled together a list of all the lefty lot’s summit slip-ups so far.

Privacy problems

It transpired just days before Sir Keir’s big investment summit was due to kick off that the government, er, accidentally leaked the email addresses of a number of industry big wigs – including that belonging to fifth richest man in the world. Sub-optimal to say the least.

Whitehall spinners blamed an ‘administrative human error’ for the unintentional sharing of French businessman Bernard Arnault’s email address, alongside that of several other summit invitees, last week. It emerged the billionaire founder of luxury group LVMH had his email CC-d into an exchange, meaning that his contact details were shared without his knowledge.