Starmer tries – and fails – to keep up with the investment summit jargon | John Crace

Starmer tries – and fails – to keep up with the investment summit jargon | John Crace

When CEOs are dangling investment promises worth billions, all other promises get burned – and any ability to speak disappears “Britain is back,” declared the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, as he opened the investment summit at Guildhall in London. But English may not be. There’s something about a business awayday that deprives normally sentient beings…