In a statement, Mike Salem, the UK Country Associate for the leading international consumer group, the Consumer Choice Center (CCC), expressed support for housing reform, especially on planning, as well as investing in new technologies and developing powerful AI models.

Salem particularly welcomed Starmer’s decision not to include an AI Bill, which would have placed constraints on AI innovation and impeded the UK’s role as a global innovator.

However, despite these promising signs, Salem raised concerns about renationalising the railways and energy, introducing an “independent” football regulator, VAT on private schools and crucially prohibiting cigarettes while imposing limits on the sale and marketing of vapes.

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