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COMMENT: Allies insist that, after a gloomy start in the job, the chancellor had long planned to shift up a gear – but her ...

Rachel Reeves has ... in the national interest, Reeves said. The government will invest in two green energy projects through the National Wealth Fund set up under Labour. Reeves said £65m will ...

Boosting the UK's sluggish growth could mean cranes in the sky and revitalised high streets, Rachel Reeves has told Labour MPs ... came ahead of a major speech on Wednesday setting out her ...

Michael O'Leary has publicly torn the Chancellor's airport expansion plans to shreds during a foul-mouthed press conference.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is today laying out government plans for economic growth at an Oxfordshire speech, where multiple ... tax introduced by the Labour government. Support for the Heathrow ...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is prepared for a head-on clash with ... Heathrow expansion and more capacity at Gatwick and Luton in a speech next week. And PM Sir Keir Starmer looks set to U-turn ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will accuse chancellor Rachel ... Ellie Reeves, Labour chair and the chancellor’s sister, dismissed Badenoch’s planned intervention as “another speech ...

Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed speech today is a big moment for her ... to boost the UK’s anaemic growth levels; if she fails, Labour’s mission to improve public services will prove impossible.