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United Kingdom: Building Mineral Capacity Through Coordination
The UK is working backwards from the economy it wants to build, connecting future material demand with selective domestic capability, markets, finance and international partnerships
By Marta Rivera Muñoz and Eduardo Zamanillo
August 6, 2026
Most critical mineral strategies begin with an inventory of exposure: what a country produces, what it imports and what it fears losing. Britain is beginning at the other end, with the economy it wants to build. The clearest expression of that shift appeared in Vision 2035. Alongside the conventional list of critical minerals exposed to present supply risk, the United Kingdom introduced 23 growth minerals linked to the industries it wants to expand. The distinction changes the direction of analysis. Rather than waiting for a material dependency to become an immediate shortage, the strategy begins with future industrial sectors and works backwards towards the minerals, technologies and supply relationships those sectors will require.
On 5 August 2026, that approach acquired a more concrete implementation instrument. The government opened the first competition under the £25 million Critical Minerals Accelerator, a grant scheme for UK-based projects in extraction, processing and recycling that have moved beyond early research but still face significant barriers to commercial scale. The scheme is directed towards projects at Technology Readiness Levels 6 to 8: technologies that have demonstrated enough promise to justify pilot, demonstration or engineering work, but remain too technically or commercially uncertain to attract conventional debt or large scale private investment.
That detail matters. Britain is not merely compiling a list of important minerals or funding undirected innovation. It is beginning to construct bridges across the points where mineral capability commonly stalls: between industrial need and commercial demand, between pilot performance and proven unit economics, between technical validation and an investment decision, and between an international partnership and dependable material supply. The wider policy architecture initially appears to consist of separate initiatives. The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre strengthens the evidence base. A national Magnet Hub is intended to support rare earth magnet manufacturing, recycling and skills. The Accelerator seeks to move technologies and projects towards commercialisation. A planned Demand Aggregation Platform would organise requirements across British industry. The National Wealth Fund and UK Export Finance address different forms of project and commercial risk. Domestic assets, international partnerships and London’s infrastructure for mining finance, metal pricing and risk management add further parts to the system.
Read together, these measures point to a distinct national approach. Britain is not attempting to place every stage of every mineral chain within its borders. It is trying to identify future material requirements early, determine which capabilities should remain within reach, make fragmented demand more visible and connect the remaining system through markets, capital and international relationships. Britain does not begin from the broad geological abundance of a major resource jurisdiction or from the dominant processing scale that defines China’s position. Its model begins with another combination of assets: selective resources, specialised industrial capabilities, research institutions, financial and professional services, market infrastructure and an extensive international network. Its potential advantage may therefore lie less in controlling an entire mineral chain than in organising the connections across it. In the British model, coordination is becoming a form of mineral infrastructure.
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Movement I: Starting with the Economy Britain Wants to Build
Conventional criticality analysis begins with the mineral. It asks how concentrated global supply is, how easily production could be disrupted and how exposed the British economy would be to that disruption. This remains essential because it identifies vulnerabilities already embedded within industrial activity. The growth minerals approach begins with a different question:
What materials will the economy Britain wants to build require?
It starts with the sectors prioritised by the Industrial Strategy, identifies the technologies associated with them and then moves backwards towards their physical inputs. This allows materials such as copper, chromium, uranium, beryllium and synthetic graphite to enter strategic planning even where current supply risk indicators have not placed them on the conventional critical minerals list.
The two perspectives perform complementary functions:
The reversal is important because a mineral can become strategically relevant before it becomes critically scarce. Copper illustrates the point. It is not classified as critical under the current British assessment, but its role in electricity networks, transportation, clean energy systems, digital infrastructure and advanced manufacturing makes its future importance difficult to ignore. Classifying it as a growth mineral allows its material requirements to enter investment, infrastructure and public finance discussions before acute scarcity becomes the principal reason for action. The technical annex gives the future economy a preliminary material scale. Its cumulative midpoint estimates to 2035 include approximately 3.6 million tonnes of copper, 867,200 tonnes of nickel, 449,100 tonnes of natural and synthetic graphite, 339,200 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, 168,700 tonnes of chromium and 37,940 tonnes of rare earth elements.
These figures are midpoint estimates rather than commercial orders. Defence demand is excluded because of its sensitivity, although the annex notes that some of it may be captured indirectly through advanced manufacturing. The estimates also focus on raw and intermediate products used by UK based manufacturing rather than minerals embedded within finished goods imported into the country. Industrial demand ultimately exists in precise forms. A battery producer may require a particular lithium chemical, nickel product or graphite morphology. An aerospace customer needs an alloy that satisfies detailed mechanical and certification standards. A magnet manufacturer requires separated rare-earth products, metals and alloys with defined purity, consistency and performance.
Between a national forecast and an investable mineral project lies an entire process of commercial conversion:
The growth minerals framework makes the first part of that sequence visible. It signals to government, industry, capital providers and international partners that the industries Britain wants to develop will carry substantial and increasingly specific material requirements. This is the first distinctive feature of the emerging model. The state is not waiting for every industrial company to encounter a mineral constraint independently. It is attempting to anticipate the physical foundations of industrial policy and identify where earlier coordination may preserve future choices. Once those requirements become visible, Britain faces a more selective question: which capabilities need to remain within reach?
Movement II: Deciding What Should Remain Within Reach
Vision 2035 does not present complete mineral self-sufficiency as a credible British objective. Its targets describe a mixed system combining selective domestic production, recycling and diversified international supply. By 2035, the strategy seeks to meet at least 10% of aggregate annual UK critical mineral demand through domestic production, at least 20% through recycling and no more than 60% through supply from any single country. It also aims for domestic production of at least 50,000 tonnes of lithium or lithium carbonate equivalent. Importantly, domestic production includes extraction, processing and refining.
That definition creates a broader concept of strategic proximity. A capability can be anchored domestically even when the original orebody is located elsewhere. Britain may gain resilience by retaining a processing facility, recycling system, specialist technology, manufacturing stage or qualified supplier relationship rather than by controlling the full chain from mine to final product. The strategy does not use the phrase strategic proximity. Its emerging architecture nevertheless suggests a useful analytical test. A capability becomes a stronger candidate for domestic anchoring when its interruption would have serious industrial or security consequences; when Britain already possesses relevant knowledge, infrastructure or demand; when the capability would be slow to reconstruct; when qualifying an alternative supplier would take considerable time; or when retaining it would strengthen Britain’s position within international networks.
The contrast between British tin and nickel illustrates the issue. The United Kingdom has a long history of tin production and projects capable of developing new primary and secondary sources. Yet tin extracted domestically can leave the country for refining before higher purity material returns to British industry. The resource may be present while an important stage of industrial conversion occurs elsewhere. The Clydach refinery in Wales occupies a different position. It processes nickel originating in Indonesia and Canada, after intermediate treatment in Japan or Canada, and converts it into Class 1 battery grade nickel at 99.9% purity. Britain does not control the original resource, but it retains a specialised conversion capability serving aerospace, defence, electronics, catalysts, stainless steel and battery related markets.
The contrast reveals why mineral strength cannot be understood from extraction statistics alone. In one case, domestic geology exists without domestic refining. In the other, domestic industrial capability exists within an international feedstock network. The Magnet Hub, lithium objectives, recycling targets and support for midstream projects reflect related choices. Each may become an anchor: a point at which domestic knowledge, manufacturing, recovery or processing provides resilience and strengthens Britain’s position within a wider network. The new Accelerator guidance reinforces this interpretation. Its priority areas include projects that build upon existing UK value chains and capabilities, close gaps in domestic supply chains, engage downstream users and demonstrate credible pathways to further scale and investment. It is not directing support uniformly across every possible mineral activity. It is looking for places where targeted intervention can strengthen a wider system.
The aggregate targets still require mineral by mineral interpretation. Britain could improve its overall sourcing profile while remaining highly exposed to one country, company or processing route for a particular specialised material. A national diversification percentage cannot reveal, by itself, whether a separated rare earth, alloying input, battery chemical or qualified product remains dependent on a single source.
Strategic proximity therefore requires visibility over the transformations that matter most:
Britain does not need every conversion to occur domestically. It does need to understand where strategically important value, knowledge and control accumulate; how difficult each capability would be to replace; and which dependencies could restrict the choices available to British industry. That understanding then needs to be connected with demand.
Movement III: Turning Demand Into a Market
The most original part of the British model may not be a mine, refinery or individual public investment. It may be the attempt to organise demand. The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre provides the analytical foundation by assessing criticality, supply concentration and British economic exposure. The growth minerals framework adds a forward looking layer by estimating the materials associated with future industries. The planned Demand Aggregation Platform would attempt to move from understanding that demand to making it commercially usable.
The government intends the platform to consolidate and clarify UK industrial requirements, facilitate industry led strategic offtake agreements and help public finance mobilise private investment. Preliminary stakeholder work has already been commissioned, while broader premarket engagement is intended to inform a tender expected later in 2026. The problem it addresses sits between industrial strategy and project finance. A country can have strategic demand without having investable demand. National need may be distributed across many industrial users. Individual companies may purchase relatively small volumes, buy through intermediate suppliers, require different specifications or hesitate to enter long term commitments before an alternative source exists. Buyers may recognise a future supply risk while remaining unwilling to assume price exposure or counterparty risk over a long period.
The need can therefore be economically significant while remaining commercially fragmented. Demand aggregation attempts to organise the conversion:
A larger and more coherent group of industrial buyers can produce a stronger demand signal. Long term contracts can improve the visibility of project revenue. Greater revenue visibility can help a mine, processor or recycling facility present a clearer route to finance. The public role is unusual but potentially powerful. Government does not necessarily need to purchase the material or build the project. It can organise information, convene users and help convert dispersed requirements into commitments that producers, lenders and investors can recognise.
For the platform to become genuine infrastructure, it must move beyond indicative volumes. It will need to address material form, quality, timing and location. It must bring together buyers whose requirements can genuinely be aggregated. It must also deal with commercial confidentiality, buyer creditworthiness, pricing mechanisms and the allocation of risk among producers, customers and the state. A demand map improves visibility. A functioning market mechanism must influence real contracts. Britain is not attempting to organise demand in an institutional vacuum. London already hosts a distinctive ecosystem for mining finance, commodity trading, law, insurance, professional services, price formation and risk management. Vision 2035 explicitly identifies British capital and commodity markets as strengths that can support international supply relationships and mineral investment.
The London Metal Exchange performs a particularly important function within that ecosystem. Its reference prices are used internationally for contract negotiation, valuation, physical settlement, margining and hedging. Its contracts are connected to approved brands and a global warehouse system, helping link financial price formation with the physical market. The LME is a commercial exchange, not an instrument of British state policy. LME Holdings became part of the HKEX Group in 2012, and the London Metal Exchange is its wholly owned subsidiary. The government cannot direct it as though it were a public agency. Yet its location in London and its integration with the City’s trading, financial, legal and insurance ecosystem still contribute to Britain’s ability to organise mineral markets. Many specialised critical mineral products do not have the liquidity, standardisation or widely accepted benchmarks available for mature base metals. They may be traded through bilateral agreements, private formulas and customer specific specifications. In these markets, long term offtake, aggregated demand, product qualification and credible buyers may perform some of the commercial work that exchange infrastructure performs for more standardised metals. The possible sequence is therefore broader than demand aggregation alone:
Mineral intelligence makes demand visible.
Aggregation makes demand coherent.
Market infrastructure makes demand commercial, manageable and financeable.
This is what makes the platform particularly relevant in the British context. It is being designed in a country that already hosts part of the infrastructure through which minerals are financed, priced, contracted, hedged and governed. Britain may not control the full physical chain, but it already occupies important parts of the commercial architecture around it. In the British model, organising the market can itself become a form of mineral capacity.
Movement IV: Bridging the Commercialisation Gap
The Critical Minerals Accelerator gives the British model a new and more precise operating instrument. The scheme is not designed primarily for early scientific research, nor is it large enough to finance the construction of a full commercial mine or refinery. It targets the difficult middle: projects whose technologies have been sufficiently validated to justify scaling, but which still lack the operational evidence, proven unit economics, detailed engineering or commercial certainty required by conventional investors.
Two project streams are eligible:
| Accelerator stream | Development stage | Expected grant | Expected duration | Principal purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot to Pre-Commercial | TRL 6+ | £1 million-£3 million | 18-36 months | Build, commission and operate representative facilities to validate technical performance, operating assumptions and unit economics |
| Demonstrator to Commercialisation | TRL 8+ | £150,000-£1 million | Typically 6-18 months | Complete FEED, detailed engineering, feasibility, permitting, validation and commercial work needed to reach an investment decision |
The first round opened on 5 August and closes on 30 September 2026. Funding decisions are expected in November or December, with grant agreements anticipated around the end of 2026 or beginning of 2027. All grant funded activity must be completed by 31 March 2030. The distinction between the two streams reveals the scheme’s logic. Pilot to precommercial projects need physical evidence. They can use grant funding for equipment, installation, commissioning, site preparation, initial operations and optimisation. Their objective is to demonstrate that a process works under increasingly representative conditions and can produce enough material to test performance and economics.
Demonstrator to commercialisation projects face another problem. Their core technology has already been validated, but they may still lack the engineering design, site integration, permitting, cost certainty and investment case needed to reach a final investment decision. The scheme can support FEED, detailed engineering, feasibility studies, technical validation and commercial assessments intended to make those projects investment ready. The eligible activities also reach beyond the plant itself. They include independent product accreditation, quality testing, feedstock qualification and offtake trials, the work required to demonstrate not only that a process can produce material, but that the material can satisfy customers and enter an industrial market.
This is especially important. Mineral commercialisation is not completed when a facility produces its first output. The product must meet a specification, demonstrate consistency, secure customer acceptance and fit within a credible commercial relationship. The Accelerator is therefore addressing technical validation and market validation together. Its priorities reinforce that intention. Applicants are encouraged to show existing or planned commercial relationships, collaboration agreements, offtake arrangements and engagement with downstream manufacturers. They must explain how the project closes a UK supply chain gap and how it will continue scaling and attracting investment after the grant period.
The scheme also requires private commitment. The maximum public contribution is 50% of eligible costs for small and micro businesses, 40% for medium sized firms and 30% for large organisations. Payments are made in arrears, and applicants must demonstrate that they can sustain the project during the initial period before reimbursements begin. This design matters analytically. The Accelerator is not intended to replace commercial capital. It is intended to produce the evidence that commercial capital demands while requiring companies and their partners to retain meaningful exposure to the outcome.
Applications are assessed through strategic fit, value for money and delivery assurance. Interviews test management quality, delivery credibility and commercial understanding. Successful projects will be monitored against indicators including technology readiness progression, private investment leveraged, new products and collaboration across the mineral ecosystem. The most significant feature of the Accelerator is therefore not simply its £25 million budget. It is where the instrument sits. It targets the transition between a promising technology and a financeable industrial proposition. In the British model, the state is attempting to make that transition navigable.
Movement V: Completing the System
The Accelerator can reduce technical and commercial uncertainty, but it cannot finance every stage that follows. Larger projects still require development capital, customers, guarantees, private equity, commercial debt and industrial partners. The broader British architecture distributes those functions across several institutions.
The National Wealth Fund invested £28.6 million in Cornish Metals in January 2025 to support work towards reopening the South Crofty tin mine. In May 2026, it committed up to a further £35 million as part of a shareholder loan supporting progress towards full project financing. The Fund has also committed up to £31 million to Cornish Lithium to advance feasibility, demonstration work and progress towards construction decisions. UK Export Finance addresses another part of the system. Its Critical Minerals Supply Finance product can guarantee commercial lending to an overseas mining, processing, manufacturing or recycling project that has a long term offtake agreement to supply eligible UK exporters. Its Critical Goods Export Development Guarantee can support working capital for UK based suppliers providing mineral products to British exporters.
The intended progression can be expressed as follows:
Different risks require different forms of capital. Grants can reduce early technical uncertainty. The Accelerator can strengthen engineering, unit economics and commercial evidence. Development capital can move a project towards an investment decision. Offtake can improve revenue visibility. Guarantees can connect international resources with British demand. Private investors and lenders remain essential once the project has matured sufficiently.
The strategic question is whether the handoffs work. A country can finance research without producing commercial technology. It can support pilots that never achieve scale. It can complete feasibility and engineering without securing customers or construction capital. It can identify strategic demand without converting that demand into contracts. The number of programmes matters less than whether projects can move from one to the next.
International partnerships complete the parts of the system that Britain cannot or does not intend to hold domestically. The UK brings capital markets, mining finance, research institutions, professional services, geological expertise, industrial demand, standards and market infrastructure. Partner countries may contribute resources, processing capacity, technology, strategic inventories, infrastructure or access to regional markets.
A productive relationship can connect these capabilities without requiring them to exist in one jurisdiction. The progression can be evaluated materially:
Britain’s partnerships remain at different stages of that sequence. Kazakhstan offers one of the clearest examples of movement into specific industrial activity. Bilateral cooperation has supported a rhenium recycling joint venture whose output has entered the Rolls Royce supply chain, together with a UK financed vanadium resource and processing project. The relationship also extends into technical cooperation, industry matching and geological education. Canada currently represents a broader programme of strategic mapping and potential investment. The two governments have committed to identify relevant minerals, infrastructure, production and processing capabilities, locate possible joint projects and use financial tools to mobilise investment. Canada brings a large geological base and mining capability; Britain contributes capital, services, markets and industrial demand. Australia adds strategic inventories, financing, research, recycling and defence related supply. The June 2026 ministerial statement identified cooperation around Australia’s Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve, capital mobilisation, research and development, recycling and materials required for defence capability.
The Commonwealth agenda introduces a related but distinct dimension. It should not be interpreted simply as an extension of British supply policy. Commonwealth members occupy different positions within mineral chains and have their own fiscal, industrial and development priorities. The Commonwealth Model Mining Feasibility Study Guidelines matter because they focus on the ability of producer governments to assess project quality, environmental and social responsibility, infrastructure needs, economic assumptions and long term national value. A state cannot negotiate or regulate mineral development effectively if it cannot determine whether the project before it is technically credible and economically durable.
For Britain, this agenda corresponds with its strengths in finance, law, geology, education, professional services and project evaluation. For producer countries, its legitimacy depends on whether cooperation strengthens national agency, institutional capability and local value creation rather than merely facilitating external access to deposits. Partnerships become mineral infrastructure when they produce more than diplomatic alignment. They must create projects, contracts, processing capability, technical knowledge, qualified products or dependable material supply.
Movement VI: The Test Is Delivery and Continuity
The United Kingdom has begun to organise the connections of a mineral system. Its success will depend on whether those connections can carry material all the way through it. The growth minerals framework must move from national forecasts to defined industrial requirements. The Demand Aggregation Platform must move from information to credible purchasing commitments. The Accelerator must move projects from technical promise to investment readiness. Public finance must help viable projects reach construction. International partnerships must produce material that meets the specifications and qualification requirements of British industry.
These are the tests of the model on its own terms. The first is whether intelligence becomes specification. A national forecast for copper, graphite, lithium or rare earths has limited commercial value until it identifies the exact form, quality, volume, timing and location required by an industrial user. The second is whether specified demand becomes commitment. A platform that maps potential buyers improves information. A platform that helps those buyers enter credible long term contracts could alter investment decisions. The third is whether technical evidence becomes investability. Accelerator projects must demonstrate performance, unit economics, qualification and a plausible route to commercial scale rather than simply complete grant funded activity. The fourth is whether commercial commitment becomes finance. Offtake improves financeability only when lenders trust the counterparty, duration, pricing mechanism and ability of the buyer to perform through market cycles. The fifth is whether public support creates durable businesses. The Magnet Hub and Accelerator will matter when the technologies, products and skills developed through them survive commercially beyond the initial government funding. The sixth is whether partnerships become material. Memoranda and working groups can establish direction. Mineral resilience appears when cooperation produces investable projects, functioning facilities, enforceable contracts and sustained delivery.
As of 6 August 2026, the Accelerator remains at the beginning of that test. Applications have opened, but projects have not yet been selected. First round decisions are expected near the end of 2026, grant agreements around the turn of the year and first drawdowns in March 2027. The scheme’s actual contribution will emerge only as selected projects generate operating evidence, attract private capital and advance towards commercial deployment.
There is also a political continuity test. Vision 2035 and the original £50 million programme were developed under Keir Starmer’s government. Starmer left office on 20 July 2026, when Andy Burnham became Prime Minister. The Accelerator opened on 5 August under the new government and the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. That launch is an early indication that the implementation architecture has survived the immediate leadership transition. It does not yet guarantee that every target, funding instrument or priority will remain unchanged through 2035. The strategy itself anticipates adaptation. Its implementation is intended to be reviewed, typically every year, with input from industry and the Critical Minerals Expert Committee. That flexibility can keep the model responsive to markets, technology and geopolitics. It also means that continuity will depend on the programme becoming institutionally and commercially embedded rather than remaining associated with one political leadership.
London’s market infrastructure faces a related test. Mature metals already benefit from established reference pricing and risk management tools. More fragmented critical mineral markets will require credible benchmarks, greater transparency, long term commercial relationships and mechanisms capable of recognising provenance and responsible production. Britain’s experience in mature commodity markets provides a foundation, but each specialised material will still require its own commercial architecture. There is also a territorial dimension. Cornwall’s lithium and tin projects, Welsh nickel processing, recycling facilities, magnet manufacturing and research infrastructure occupy real places. They require workers, energy, water, planning decisions, transport and credible relationships with surrounding communities.
British policy has become increasingly clear about why minerals matter to communications, healthcare, energy, transport, defence and everyday life. The next connection must run back from those final capabilities to the mines, plants, recycling systems and industrial infrastructure that make them possible. The future industrial economy has a material geography. That connection does not imply that every project should proceed because its mineral appears on a strategic list. It creates a more coherent context in which technically credible, economically viable and territorially legitimate projects can be assessed as part of Britain’s industrial future.
The British model can ultimately be measured through a series of conversions:
Information into specified demand.
Demand into contracts.
Technical evidence into investment readiness.
Contracts into finance.
Finance into operating projects.
Partnerships into material supply.
Coordination creates capacity only when it carries something through the system.
A British Route to Mineral Relevance
Some mineral strategies are built outward from exceptional geology. Others are constructed around dominant processing and manufacturing systems. Britain is trying to build relevance from a different asset base. It possesses selective domestic resources, specialised midstream and recycling capabilities, research institutions, financial and professional services, industrial demand, market infrastructure and an extensive network of international relationships, including across a Commonwealth that encompasses several major mineral producing jurisdictions.
The growth minerals framework begins with the future economy and identifies its material requirements. Domestic targets establish selected anchors in extraction, processing, refining, lithium and recycling. Mineral intelligence improves visibility. Demand aggregation seeks to convert industrial need into commercial commitment. London’s markets contribute price discovery, finance, risk management and commercial organisation. The Accelerator targets the gap between technical validation and investability. Public finance institutions address later stages of project and commercial risk. International partnerships connect British demand and capability with resources and industrial functions elsewhere.
The model does not seek to place every stage of every chain inside the United Kingdom. It seeks to understand which capabilities create particular strategic value, which should remain within reach and how the remaining system can be made more reliable through markets, capital and international cooperation. This is organised interdependence rather than complete self sufficiency. It also offers a wider lesson. Countries that are not dominant mineral producers or processors are not necessarily excluded from the emerging mineral order. Some can build relevance through technology, finance, standards, logistics, industrial demand, market infrastructure or the ability to organise connections across jurisdictions.
Those functions do not replace mining or processing. A price does not produce a tonne of metal. A contract does not operate a refinery. A financial centre cannot substitute for geology, engineering or accumulated industrial knowledge. But markets, capital and coordination can determine which projects are built, which materials are qualified, which risks can be managed and which supply relationships become durable.
The new Accelerator makes the British proposition more tangible. It recognises that mineral capability is often lost in the space between invention and industry, where a process has moved beyond the laboratory but remains too uncertain for conventional finance. Britain is now attempting to organise that transition alongside the transitions from demand to contract, contract to finance and partnership to supply. Britain’s mineral relevance will therefore not be measured solely by how much of the physical chain it owns. It will be measured by whether its institutions can make the parts it does not own more visible, contractable, financeable, governable and reliable, and whether the capabilities it chooses to hold close can survive at commercial scale. The United Kingdom has begun to organise that route. The next decade will determine whether the route can deliver.
Resources
UK strategy, criticality and industrial demand
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Critical Minerals Programme
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London market infrastructure
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Public finance and project development
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International partnerships and institutional development
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Political continuity
Prime Minister’s Office. The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP.
Prime Minister’s Office. The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP.
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