Britain needs an additional one trillion pounds ($1.3 trillion) in investment in the next decade to grow the economy, a report said on Friday.
New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he wanted the economy to achieve annual growth of 2.5% when campaigning in the run-up to July 4’s election – a rate that Britain has not regularly reached since before the 2008 financial crisis.
An annual growth rate of 3% would require extra investment of 100 billion pounds a year in the next 10 years, particularly in energy, housing and venture capital, according to the report from UK financial services lobby group Capital Markets Industry Taskforce.
The investment could come out of the six trillion pounds in long-term capital in Britain’s pensions and insurance sector, the report’s lead author Nigel Wilson, former boss of Legal & General (LGEN.L), opens new tab, told Reuters.
“We’ve underinvested in the UK for such a long time, there’s a massive gap between the other G7 countries and ourselves,” he said.
“We have the long-term capital in the UK, it needs to be reallocated.”
