A new government – and a chance for construction to be heard

By Richard Steer2024-07-05T08:09:00

Keir Starmer steps in to No10 with much to do and the economy in a perilous state. He would be wise to engage with the built environment sector more successfully than his predecessors, says Richard Steer

They say that the first 100 days of any new government is totemic in politics. So, now that the inevitable has occurred and we have a Labour administration with a landslide majority in charge, what can we expect?

Let’s be honest, I can see very little happening in the early days that will shock or stun the electorate that put Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the helm of the ship. The initial period will be filled with much hand-wringing and feigned astonishment about the state of the situation inherited from the last Conservative government.

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