The major UK political parties have released their manifestos ahead of the general election, featuring plenty of policies aimed at supporting the tech industry. AI, data, fintech and R&D are among the key tech areas that the Conservatives and Labour are addressing in this year’s election.
The incumbent Conservative Party has been struggling in the polls, while Kier Starmer’s Labour has been looking to reinvent the party as a champion of business and tech.
Have the tech policies from the parties been enough to win over the tech industry?
AI, data and infrastructure
Labour highlighted the need to scale the UK’s data infrastructure to support the rise of technologies such as AI.
Labour’s proposal to “remove planning barriers to new data centres” was described by Philip Kaye, co-founder of Vesper Technologies, as a “step in the right direction”....