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.
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Labour Split Erupts Over Rachel Reeves' 'Indefensible' Decision To Back Third Heathrow Runway
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Heathrow third runway flights will take off ‘within a decade’, says Rachel Reeves
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.
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.
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
As the Chancellor announces a raft of policies to boost economic growth, PA news agency explains what that means in real terms.
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.”
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.
The Labour Party Chancellor and MP was speaking out on Wednesday as she delivered a landmark speech on growth on January 29.
Rachel Reeves has vowed to slash red tape and go for growth in a quest to make working people feel “better off”. In a wide-ranging speech on Wednesday, the Chancellor set out plans to overhaul the planning system, boost transport investment and encouraging trade in an effort to kickstart growth.
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.
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’
The chancellor has pointed to the government's planning reforms as the reason why the project could be completed in 10 years.
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