A range of thorny issues are stacked in the in-tray of the incoming government as it sets about boosting growth without breaking campaign pledges not to increase debt or raise taxes.
Having turned the political map red, Labour's priority is steering the economy into the black. Sir Keir Starmer's programme for government may be modest, but the means to deliver it are not. A new prime minister and, in Rachel Reeves - widely expected to become the UK's first female chancellor - have a tough economic inheritance. Follow general election fallout live Stagnant growth, hefty debt interest payments and an ageing, sickly population have left public services stretched.
Improving the relationship with the EU is higher on business's radar than it seems to be on Labour's. A return to the single market and free movement, a shortcut to growth, has been ruled politically and practically impossible in the short term, but Sir Keir and his team have talked about a warmer relationship with Brussels and improving the terms of the current deal.
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