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Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has cancelled a planned 450 million-pound investment in a vaccine manufacturing plant in northwest England.

AstraZeneca is pulling out of its plans to build a £450mn UK vaccine manufacturing plant after months of wrangling with British officials about state investment for the Merseyside project, in a major blow to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government.

AstraZeneca cancels £450m vaccine plant in UK after Government 'own goal' in blow to Rachel Reeves growth plan - The pharmaceutical giant claimed the Labour Government failed to match Tory predecessor

AstraZeneca has been locked in a stand-off with the Government for months over state aid for the project, which would have involved a new factory powered by renewables built at the site. It had reportedly been offered around £90m by Rishi Sunak’s government, but Labour had sought to cut that state aid to £40m.

The pharmaceutical giant says the new Labour government has offered less investment than their Conservative predecessors.

AstraZeneca’s manufacturing will-they-won’t-they within its home country has swung back firmly toward the ‘they won’t’ camp after the British pharma confirmed that it’s ditching a major venture at | AstraZeneca is pulling the plug on a 450 million pound sterling investment at its vaccine production site in England due in large part to the reduction of a planned financial contribution from the U.

AstraZeneca has axed plans to invest £450 million in a vaccine manufacturing plant in Merseyside in a fresh blow to Labour’s mission for growth.

AstraZeneca is no longer pursuing plans for a 450 million pound ($558.32 million) vaccine manufacturing plant in Speke, Liverpool, a company spokesperson said on Friday.

AstraZeneca has axed plans to build a £450million vaccine manufacturing plant because of a lack of Government support in the latest blow to Rachel Reeves. The Labour government last summer tried to reduce the amount of state support provided to the Liverpool project from about £90million to £40million,