The Iron Chancellor Rachel Reeves may have to flex to get the growth she wants
It has been a wild January for Rachel Reeves and frankly for economics in the UK and the world.When Labour swept to victory last summer, Reeves pledged she would be an "iron" chancellor, reining in public spending and improving the lives of working people through growing the economy.
Rachel Reeves's plans for planes could doom Labour
ANALYSIS: A leading eco-campaigner has already condemned Labour as 'worse than the Tories' and the Greens are ready to strike in key constituencies
Britain’s Rachel Reeves needs a growth miracle
A major speech Wednesday promises a host of pro-growth policies to turn the UK economy around. But the hurdles in the chancellor’s way are huge.
Rachel Reeves’s plan for Heathrow to ‘turbocharge’ economy struggles to take off
Chancellor’s optimistic economic growth vision hit in the short term as Tesco and Lloyds announce hundreds of job losses and she admits fixing the economy is ‘not an easy job’
Reeves backs third Heathrow runway in growth push
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has backed a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport as part of a fresh plan to get the UK's sluggish economy growing. She said Heathrow expansion, which has been delayed for decades over environmental concerns, would "make Britain the world's best connected place to do business".
Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out tax changes from March
The Labour Party Chancellor and MP was speaking out on Wednesday as she delivered a landmark speech on growth on January 29.
Rachel Reeves says third runway at Heathrow could be built and in use by 2035
Heathrow 's third runway could be built and in use by 2035, Rachel Reeves has signalled. Asked for a timeline on the plans, which she backed on Wednesday, the Chancellor told BBC Breakfast: "We want to see spades in the ground in this Parliament.
Julian Harris: Rachel Reeves is Everywhere
As UK economics editor, my life for the last week has felt a lot like surrealist movie Being John Malkovich — but with Rachel Reeves in the central role.
How quickly could Rachel Reeves' new plans boost growth?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday that "economic growth is the number one mission of this government" as she unveiled a series of proposals to boost the UK's economy. But how quickly could the government get growth from the plans she announced?
The contradictions at the heart of Rachel Reeves’ growth plan
Good afternoon on this, the eve of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the week that Rachel Reeves tried to put the rocket-boosters under Labour’s economic growth strategy.
'Reeks of panic': Labour MP tears into party's growth plans
A LABOUR MP has slated his party’s growth agenda saying it “reeks of panic”. In a column for The Guardian, Clive Lewis said ...
Rachel Reeves may have just made things worse for Labour with brave 7-word claim
Double-bubble: Rachel Reeves' regurgitating of Boris Johnson ’s old manifesto, sorry I mean Rachel Reeves' unveiling of ...
Labour hails Thatcher and Trump, pledging to “cut the weeds of regulation”
Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president ...
Reeves tells Labour MPs of need to 'go further and faster' to generate growth
The Chancellor has faced questions about her plans since the start of the year, amid stuttering growth figures and rising ...
Will Labour’s plan for growth actually work? Two economists respond
Labour’s ambitions for a more pro-growth, pro-business agenda mark a positive shift, at least in tone. But actual, visible, ...
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Conservatives claim Milton Keynes Silicon Valley plans are "nothing new"
The Milton Keynes Conservative Group have claimed that plans to deliver the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor, announced by ...
Growth – and damn the consequences?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has sought to place rocket-boosters under the UK economy this week – with a vow to prioritise growth over the environment or nimbyism. But how long will her plan take to work, ...
Is Rachel Reeves abandoning the North?
If you add in Labour's decision to abandon plans to upgrade part of the A1 in Northumberland to dual carriageway, you can ...