like an agriculture way, we reduced costs with a sense this was going to happen. the failure of the food system in the uk has been coming down the line for the last 20 years. the issues of brexit, covid and ukraine have simply quickened the pace. we started direct retailing early on and felt the signals earlier than the rest of the industry. we have changed to direct selling, so we face our customers and we know what they re selling. for the government to initiate exceptional market conditions is just a sticking plaster and won t address the underlying issues of market regulation. i address the underlying issues of market regulation. address the underlying issues of market regulation. i was about to ask ou market regulation. i was about to ask you that. market regulation. i was about to ask you that, what market regulation. i was about to ask you that, what would - market regulation. i was about to ask you that, what would a - ask you that, what would a declaration of exceptional
into the uk s future. this morning mr brown laid out the finding of the report, saying labour is not the old establishment in waiting, it is the new government in waiting ready to transform britain, sir keir starmer rejected a sticking plaster approach to reform of the uk, as he unveiled his party s plans to decentralise power away from westminster. he said the report identified 288 future engines of growth across the uk , 200 of them outside london. and it recommended some 50,000 civil servants should be transferred out of london to save £200 million. a government source says starmer is playing politics while they are focusing on priorites like the economy and immigration. the report was overseen by former prime minister gordon brown. to secure the irreversible transfer of wealth, income and opportunity that we want to see, we also need an irreversible transfer of power. past devolution settlements, as, tracy has just
in the report and as you will have seen, and we will consult on those as we will consult on other issues will stop actually, about a year ago we already set out our position in regard to second jobs when this first cropped up. i was in the middle of a press conference when borisjohnson tried to bomb my press conference by proposing the very same thing in relation to second jobs. the difference is, he hasn t got on with it. we have set out in their proposals in clear terms in their proposals in clear terms in the report. there is obviously again a question of how we implement those but we have actually set out a pretty compelling case on second jobs. 0n the question of where the government goes next on the strikes, i don t think more legislation, restricting the right to strike is the right way forward. i think the government should fix the underlying problems. the government should get off its hands, it has been sitting on them throughout these disputes, rather than resolving them. you
sir keir starmer is trying to say that i m going to align myself with these people because i want to be prime minister as well. it won t be popular with everyone and his party, some consider the new labour years a mistake, the calculation that sir keir starmer has made is that if he is going to win power who have to win it from the centre. he feels that tony blair and gordon brown are symbols of that. a lot of this is the thing is that gordon brown has talked about for some time. in the 2014 scottish referendum, gordon brown talked a lot about devolving power away from westminster to scotland. what is this designed to do is to look at a broader approach for the whole of the uk and say transfer power to different places, for example local mayors on how
potential. britain is one of the most centralised systems in europe, and the centre has not delivered. now, i don t want it to fall apart, i want us to build something new. anyone can see what s happening in the uk today. we have an unbalanced economy, one which makes too little use of the talents of too few people in too few places. and which the tories have dragged into a vicious cycle of low growth and high taxes. faced with this narrow path of stagnation, is it any surprise that people up and down the country are crying out for a new approach? now, during the brexit referendum, i argued for remain. but i couldn t disagree with the basic case that lots of leave voters made to me. they wanted more control over their lives. more control over their country. they wanted to create