"We will use the power of public procurement to support British ingenuity," Starmer told the London Tech Week conference in a speech on Monday.

Tech Secretary Liz Kendall will announce "strategic purchases" of semiconductor kit from UK companies at London Tech Week, aiming to build a £37B chip industry.

A year after declaring itself an “AI maker, not an AI taker,” the UK is delivering sovereign compute, showcasing breakthrough startup and enterprise AI deployments across biology,…