Member

Warm words about being fair and balanced do not cut it. The Government have stood in the way of attempts to stop one sector building its products on the labour of another without permission or payment. We will shortly see celebratory announcements of inward investment, shiny new AI zones, data centres and several thousand jobs. I am all for inward investment and I am all for new jobs—indeed, I am all in for AI—but, while the Government say it is “premature” to give transparency to prevent our work being stolen, they are sacrificing UK businesses to invest our future and our tax receipts in AI, in advance of any economic assessment and without any analysis of to whom the money will go. It is economically illiterate and morally and culturally indefensible.