When a business raises capital, it buys equipment, expands its operations, and hires people. That’s how investment becomes jobs. But the United Kingdom has ranked in the bottom quartile of advanced economies for private capital investment every year since 1995.

The gap with our peers runs to roughly £100 billion annually. A new report from the Jobs Foundation makes for uncomfortable reading, but it also offers concrete proposals for what to do about it.

Marc Sidwell is joined by Andrew Allum, international strategist and one of the report's authors, to discuss what it will take to close the investment gap – and whether Britain still has the political will to try.

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