Latest updates: final two candidates exchange blows over plans for cost of living, levelling up and China
Starmer says Labour’s approach to levelling up will be based on a practical plan, unlike the government’s.
And he says he was impressed by the approach of Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, whom he met in Berlin recently. Starmer suggests Britain could learn from the way new battery factories are located in poor regions in Germany.
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