Labour critics are mad at Rachel Reeves - but for completely the wrong reason
It's like complaining that PM Keir Starmer hasn't grabbed enough freebies, or that Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has too much common sense. But that’s how they think, on the left of the party. Their biggest beef about Labour is that Rachel Reeves is too soft. She needs to tax more – and spend more of course.
Labour Split Erupts Over Rachel Reeves' 'Indefensible' Decision To Back Third Heathrow Runway
Heathrow's third runway can be built in 10 years, Reeves says
Heathrow's third runway can be built and operating in a decade's time, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. Reeves told the BBC she wanted to see "spades in the ground" in the current Parliament and planes to start using the runway by 2035.
Heathrow third runway flights will take off ‘within a decade’, says Rachel Reeves
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’s pioneering new plan for growth, then Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.
John Prescott's Hull funeral draws Labour veterans as Reeves vows Heathrow third runway within decade: Latest
John Prescott's Hull funeral draws Labour veterans as Reeves vows Heathrow third runway within decade: Latest - Green campaigners warn of ‘costly mistake’ on airport expansion that will take decades a
What do Rachel Reeves’ plans for growth mean for the economy?
As the Chancellor announces a raft of policies to boost economic growth, PA news agency explains what that means in real terms.
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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.
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, tangible growth depends on execution. This in turn depends on private sector money, overcoming bureaucratic hurdles, and cutting the Brexit red-tape that continues to hamper trade with the EU.
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 has just set out with our own dynamism… Every country has to do it.”
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’
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.
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 borrowing costs
Labour civil war brews as MP slams Keir Starmer over 'reckless' Heathrow expansion
Zarah Sultana, Labour MP for Coventry South, opposes the Heathrow Airport expansion plans and claims the Prime Minister has U-turned on his initial stance.