{
  "id": 7182881,
  "title": "Andy Burnham to host entrepreneurs and local mayors at No 10 on Monday",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/13/andy-burnham-to-host-entrepreneurs-and-local-mayors-at-no-10-on-monday",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-13T21:30:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/13/andy-burnham-host-business-leaders-local-mayors-no-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Andy Burnham will host business leaders, entrepreneurs, and regional mayors at Downing Street on Monday, as part of Prime Minister's pledge to \"reindustrialise Britain\" through a new partnership with the private sector. The event aims to showcase Britain's potential for growth, highlighting the country's skilled workforce and world-class universities, while addressing the need for a cultural shift in business practices. Burnham will lead a roundtable discussion with the founders of innovative companies, such as Octopus Energy, Revolut, Starling Bank, and Oxford Quantum Circuits, followed by a reception for chief executives of major British businesses. These include HSBC, Aviva, Standard Chartered, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, BT, Vodafone, BP, Shell, Rolls-Royce, and BAE Systems. The gathering precedes Burnham and Chancellor John Healey's first budget presentation on October 28th. Despite recent economic growth in July, fueled by AI and cloud computing, economists caution that rising energy costs could undermine expansion in the subsequent months. Burnham and Healey are committed to fiscal rules, ensuring spending is covered by taxes and government debt falls as a percentage of the economy by 2029/30, while avoiding any income tax, national insurance, or VAT increases as per Labour's manifesto.",
  "summary": "Prime minister vows to ‘reindustrialise Britain’ through new partnership with business The prime minister is to host business leaders, entrepreneurs and local mayors at Downing Street on Monday to pitch his government as a “partner for growth” that can offer a stable platform for investment and jobs in the UK. Ahead of the event, Andy Burnham said the country had “everything it needs to succeed”,…",
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    "Andy Burnham to host entrepreneurs and mayors at No 10 on Monday",
    "Event part of PM's pledge to reindustrialise Britain",
    "Roundtable with founders of Octopus Energy, Revolut, Starling Bank"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "Hospitality industry urges Andy Burnham to lay out VAT cut plans",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/13/hospitality-industry-urges-andy-burnham-to-lay-out-vat-cut-plans",
        "published": "2026-09-13T23:01:16.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}