UNITE leader Sharon Graham has welcomed an acknowledgement by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer that the government is prepared to borrow money to invest in Britain’s infrastructure.

Sir Keir said in media interviews at the United Nations in New York, where he also met Donald Trump, that he had “long believed in borrowing to invest” as a “catalyst” to attract for private investment.

But the Prime Minister added that he did not want to “get ahead” of the government’s first Budget, which Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to announce on October 30.