If there was a word of the day, it was “stability”.

At the UK’s International capital Summit on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer said his event’s large majority would draw a line under an eight-year period in which the UK saw four prime ministers and six chancellors.

That is valued by international investors like Anders Opedal, boss of Norwegian vigor giant Equinor, which has invested billions in UK renewables as well as oil and gas.

Mr Opedal said: “I ponder the government are putting forward a very excellent schedule for how to enhance, working together with the private sector, now it is about execution and getting execution correct.”

Domestic chiefs were also upbeat. Amanda Blanc who runs superannuation and insurance firm Aviva told the BBC “the mood was very positive.”

The other word that came out of minsters’ mouths a lot was “regulation”. Not the sexiest of words or concepts, but it mattered a lot to the selection makers in the Guildhall on Monday.

Sir Keir said that, while not all regulation was impoverished, he wanted to sweep away the benevolent that requires vigor companies to complete 4,000 documents to commence building infrastructure.

Just last week, though, the government introduced the biggest boost in employment regulation in a creation.

Higher minimum wages, a plethora of rights, including protection from unfair dismissal from day one and a correct for employees to insist on flexible working unless the employer can prove its not practical.

Even a recent convert to Labour, the billionaire former Conservative donor John Caudwell said he had reservations about that.

He told the BBC he was “not very keen” on Labour’s plans to boost workers’ rights, calling them “a real burden on business”.

Yet, he said businesses and potential investors, would “swallow the difficulties that arrive as a outcome of that extra regulation on employee rights” if the wider objective of growing the economy was met.

Sir Keir was clearly aware that was a source of disquiet for some firms and leaned into the subject, saying that more secure, better paying jobs increased disposable turnover and the tendency to spend it.

However, the elephant in the room was the distribution at the complete of this month.

Speaking to reporters at the conference, Chancellor Rachel Reeves once again refused to rule out imposing National Insurance contributions on employer superannuation contributions – a potential £10bn to £20bn hit to employers.

Meanwhile, the chancellor gave her clearest indication yet she is prepared to ditch traditional methods of measuring national obligation to invest in UK infrastructure, by referencing three former policy makers who back the concept.

Current rules require government obligation to be falling as a percentage of national turnover by the complete of the parliament.

Excluding borrowing to capital capital would provide her tens of billions of pounds worth of extra wiggle room but could raise government borrowing costs as lenders to the government feel they are taking more hazard.

The government also resurrected the concept of an Industrial schedule, publishing a green document that promised to enshrine it in law so it can’t be easily binned as it was by the previous government.

It said it would not try and pick winners but focus on the UK’s strengths across eight sectors: advanced manufacturing; tidy vigor industries, creative industries; defence; digital and technologies; monetary services; life sciences; and professional and business services.

With a nod to the former England manager Gareth Southgate, who was a panel member to discuss the UK’s creative and cultural strengths, Sir Keir said he wanted to make sure the pitch was mown and the changing rooms were enjoyable for the teams playing.

Was the summit a achievement? Labour certainly ponder so and were keen to point out that last years Sunak led capital summit only raised £39bn.

By contrast, the government pointed to the £63bn in private sector capital as proof of that its schedule was already working and said it was prepared to spend its own money to unlock even more capital. Some of this capital had already been announced previously.

These numbers are challenging to judge. You never recognize how many of these capital would have been made anyway but are held back or accelerated to coincide with these events.

Its also challenging to recognize how much is being held back the distribution, which many ponder will determine the government way to levy, spending and borrowing for the rest of this parliament.

The benevolent of period frame these investors prefer.