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City heavyweights warn chancellor of UK savings and investment ‘crisis’

A letter signed by eight City grandees calls on the new government to help mobilise domestic savings to revitalise the UK economy

Rachel Reeves is under pressure from titans of finance to do more to unlock UK markets
Rachel Reeves is under pressure from titans of finance to do more to unlock UK markets Photo: Jonathan Brady/Getty Images

City heavyweights including Schroders chief executive Peter Harrison have written to chancellor Rachel Reeves warning of an “impending crisis of long-term savings and investment in the UK”.

The letter, which is also signed by former Standard Life Aberdeen boss Keith Skeoch and Pension Insurance Corporation chief Tracy Blackwell, urges the Labour government to “make restoring this savings and investment deficit to health a core mission”.

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