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Wes Streeting, the former health secretary and Labour leadership hopeful, is today calling for new laws to speed up the construction of critical infrastructure projects.

In a speech this morning, he is saying:

We used to be a country that could do great things. With the promise that the next generation can have it better than the last. We still can. And I want to give people reason to believe again.

If parliament can act in days to save British Steel, it can act with urgency to save Britain’s future prosperity.

I am putting forward an agenda for progressive capitalism, that backs enterprise, rewards work, takes on vested interests and makes markets serve our shared goals of growth, fairness and a better future for the next generation.

That means doing three things. First, push the frontier of innovation. Create the conditions where highly productive firms can scale.

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