Labour’s Freeport fakery: how Starmer’s plan doubles down on neoliberalism’s corporate carve-up

Labour’s Freeport fakery: how Starmer’s plan doubles down on neoliberalism’s corporate carve-up

Keir Starmer’s Labour government has repackaged the UK’s toxic Freeports and Special Economic Zones (SEZs), all 86 of them, as “Industrial Strategy Zones (ISZs)”, touting them as a ‘progressive engine for green jobs, fair work, and regional revival’. Unveiled in Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan and The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy on June 23rd 2025, ISZs promise to streamline 25 zones into a unified framework, targeting clean en…