Labour MP for Hove & Portslade.
Hove
Joined February 2009
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Peter Kyle retweeted
.@soundboy is a true 🇬🇧 patriot. The positive impact of his energy and determination will be massive and enduring.
I believe Ian Hogarth - @soundboy - deserves much wider and deeper credit and recognition for voluntarily forfeiting shares in Anthropic so that he could set up and run the AI Security Institute (@AISecurityInst) - where he, and Britain, are generally acclaimed to be doing an outstanding job. (Something else he deserves greater credit for).
This noble decision was *very* expensive.
I also believe, and hope, that for our fast-growing audience this may be one of the most useful conversations they hear about Technology this year. We go deep on:
> What is AI?
> The real rate at which it is developing
> The race dynamic in global innovation
> Humanity’s fork in the road
> The significant chance of a huge market crash
> The exhilarating case Quantum Computing
> The exhilarating case for Fusion
> The exhilarating potential for Robotics
> Why outstanding British companies sometimes struggle to scale
> How Britain, and Europe, can lead
> The Future of jobs
> How Founders succeed
> His noble decision to do a public service role
> His fantasy for Battersea Power station
Ian is co-Founder and Partner at Plural, and co-Founder and Chair of the UK's AI Security Institute (@AISecurityInst).
This was a great, immensely useful conversation and I'd be honoured if you lent an ear to The Amol Rajan Connection.
Out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube.
Thanks for your time and attention to this matter.
Peter Kyle retweeted
Loved joining @BethRigby @HarrietHarman and @RuthDavidsonPC on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast to discuss welfare reform, the budget and how making AI work for all should be a top priority for the PM’s 10 year plan
'We have got to do more to back British AI'
@BethRigby questioned former science, innovation and technology secretary Liz Kendall (@leicesterliz) on what the government should do about AI and the challenges it comes with.
🟣Listen to Electoral Dysfunction here: trib.al/9fq1Ckf or wherever you get your podcasts.
Peter Kyle retweeted
Annualised UK GDP growth so far in 2026, with two-thirds of the year gone, is 2.7-2.8%
Is expected to slow in q4, but that was also expected in q3. And q2.
City economists (eg Pantheon) say “we have to shift from describing UK growth as resilient to calling it strong”.
This is why I’m so driven to support British AI companies - they’re changing lives for the better.
It’s great seeing @ElevenLabs innovating from strength to strength
Today, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton delivered a speech in the @UKHouseofLords using an AI recreation of her voice, built by ElevenLabs. A first for the UK Parliament.
Baroness Campbell has spinal muscular atrophy, which affects her speech. The Baroness has now created an AI voice that replicates the tone, rhythm, and pitch of her original voice.
Our technology has now been used to restore the voices of more than 11,000 people who have lost their voices through injury or illness, and we’ve committed to help one million people living with voice loss around the world.
Peter Kyle retweeted
Why is this a difficult question to answer ?
"Do you think that the state of Israel, as a safe home for Jews after the Holocaust and after the pogroms, has a right to exist?"
@bbcnickrobinson repeatedly asks Green Party leader Zack Polanski.
Peter Kyle retweeted
NON COMPETES BANNED
Today, the PM has announced that his Government will legislate to functionally ban non-compete agreements for startups and scaleups in the UK or as he called it - the Bosman ruling for ruling for the innovation sector' 😂
At the @StartupCltn been working on this for months and we think it’s a huge potential unlock for our tech ecosystem.
Here’s what you need to know…
- Measures to functionally ban non-competes for startups and scaleups in the UK are going to be set out.
- There will also be consultation on a wider set of restrictive practices including gardening leave.
- More detail on these plans at the budget in a few weeks (Wednesday 28th October) including a timetable for consultation with a view to legislation in the coming months.
We think this is a huge move and so do lots of friends including so many of the great founders that signed the letter with Inherent just the other week.
Why? Because talent matters and mobile talent means startups can build. The Valley was built on free-flowing talent. In the UK, we’re now seeing our own versions of this story with companies being built from alumni of both homegrown firms like Revolut and beyond. But we need that to move faster. Hiring and building faster means British startups and scaleups can grow faster. Barriers to that slow our ecosystem down.
We won’t pretend it will be perfect, and people (including some of our friends but also lots of fairly vested interests too) will have a right to disagree. But we think that startups will thrive and win in a faster paced Britain.
So we are delighted with the progress today - as part of a strong speech by the PM outlining his ambition for building the world’s leading innovation nation including more on tax, growing companies outside London and more. But this is the start, not the end of the process. The announcement launches a consultation. It doesn't mean the issue is settled. How far reform goes, and what it looks like on the ground, is still to be decided.
The Prime Minister today has done something that can materially impact the trajectory of the UK tech ecosystem and with it our economy - but only if we make sure it’s delivered. So, the real work starts now.
.@Sagal_AW is such a great candidate, it’s been a pleasure supporting her campaign.
#VoteLabour
For those not into essays, here’s my full interview on economic growth…and recovering from office!…with @bbclaurak
youtu.be/rofCFobTD3g?is=FNxc…
I’m speaking at one event at Labour conference this year, in conversation with @BethRigby.
Thanks to @GoodGrowthFdn for hosting it.
Reserve your place here 👇
luma.com/tv83o9j7
Social justice and economic growth are inextricably linked. We should be equally driven for both.
Thanks to the @GoodGrowthFdn for publishing my essay on how we organise government around growth in order to deliver social change 👇
goodgrowthfdn.substack.com/p…
Peter Kyle retweeted
"We need act with more urgency when it comes to economic growth”
In his first interview since being asked to leave cabinet by Andy Burnham, former Business Secretary Peter Kyle tells #BBCLauraK that there isn't enough focus on growth in government.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9zr…
Peter Kyle retweeted
Former Biz Sec @peterkyle tells us economy is going '30mph on a motorway', and that the PM must show more 'urgency' to get the economy going
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9zr…
When both my parents died they did so in my arms and with those they loved. It felt natural and helped bring peace to us all.
@CHazelgroveMP’s speech is beyond heartbreaking and illustrates so perfectly the imperfect position of our end of life laws
Assisted Dying: Same bill, same parliament.
The different result was not on principle but a procedural issue caused by a tiny number of unelected peers who think themselves more important than the rest of us - elected or not. So self-reverent any means are justified to them.
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I first voted for assisted dying in 2015 as a newly elected MP. I did so again last year and again today.
The will of parliament as expressed in all proceedings in the Commons last year has been undermined.
I hope it’s not long before this sorry saga can be corrected.
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Peter Kyle retweeted
As I’ve long argued, we need to seize the benefits of AI as well as deal with risks and challenges it inevitably brings.
We must shape AI to work for Britain and the British people, including the potential for jobs and stronger economic growth.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5x…
Loved visiting Saddlescombe Farm in my constituency a while ago. I’m sending them and every farmer my best on Back British Farming Day
A real milestone for UK tech.
Congratulations to @alexgkendall and his team for their drive (!), grit and vision.
I felt honoured to be there to celebrate with them.
Yesterday's launch of our London robotaxi was epic!
We completed our first 100+ trips with @Uber across the full breadth of Greater London. Phenomenal public response.
Thank you to our team, partners, regulators, investors and everyone who made this possible. Lots more to do..
