Darren Jones MP for Bristol North West and newly elected Chair of the BEIS Select Committee discusses the future of the British economy on Labour Business TV.
As the centre-left business community comes to terms with the scale of Labour’s defeat, it seems that a new vigour and optimism is returning. We know how to create jobs and growth. We’ve done it all our lives. And
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