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ARTICLE · 20 JUNE 2024

Navigating The UK's Digital Regulation Landscape: Where Are We Headed Under Labour?

Lewis Silkin
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Labour's manifesto commits to supporting digital sector growth while ensuring responsible technology use through regulation, including AI oversight and enhanced R&D funding. They propose binding regulations for AI, long-term R&D budgets, and a National Data Library for data-driven public services.

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The success of the UK's digital sector and regulatory regime is also inextricably linked to the wider world - ideas, talent, research and investment flow across borders, and our ability to invent and market innovative technology is critical.

According to the mission statement of Labour Digital (the home of digital and technology policy for Labour Party members and supporters), the party "believe[s] that technology holds the answer to fixing our unproductive economy, to solving global challenges like climate change and to transforming our public services to become more efficient for tax payers and more effective for users. But it's also clear that, unregulated, technology can have negative or unintended consequences".

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