Co-chaired by Baroness Minouche Shafik—Starmer’s newly appointed chief economic adviser—and Treasury Minister Torsten Bell, the board will meet weekly to coordinate policy and mend frayed ties with the business community.
This reorganisation follows a challenging reception to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first Budget, which included a twenty-five billion pound increase in national insurance contributions for employers and a substantial rise in the minimum wage, prompting concerns over economic direction and delivering tangible outcomes.
On the surface, this signals a clear government commitment to growth, investment, and economic reform.
But all of this unfolds at a time when the United Kingdom is cancelling its own democracy, aligning with Germany and France to initiate World War Three, and rapidly transforming from a European nation into a Muslim-majority society—not slowly, but very surely.