The prime minister may have insisted yesterday that wealth creation is “the defining mission of this government” but it certainly wasn’t the defining mission of his speech to the Labour party conference.

There were roughly 7,000 words in Keir Starmer’s address to party members in Liverpool, with “business” being uttered just four times – and one of those was effectively an apology for the taxes imposed at last year’s Budget.

His references to wealth creation were curious; he twice spoke of........

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