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...Rachel Reeves delivered the Mais Lecture last night....
...“I have to be honest that we’re not going to be able to turn things around straight away. But we will get to work on all of that,” Reeves added....
...“I’m chancellor because I want to change that,” he told the House of Lords economic affairs committee....
...I wonder if Sir Keir Starmer or Reeves have met with many small businesses....
...I will return to this quite soon....
...“It is fair to say that when I made that speech in autumn 2021 I did not foresee the Liz Truss mini-Budget and the damage that that would do to our economy and our public finances,” she said....
...It might work, but I doubt it....
...“Jeremy Hunt and Rachel Reeves are very similar,” Clarke said. “The big difference is that I handed over to Gordon the healthiest economy we had had since the war.”...
...This is a fight I want to have.” Another party figure said: “Messaging and details can always be tweaked, but this is our big growth plan.”...
...She cites Milton Friedman saying that “Anna [Schwartz] did all of the work, and I got most of the recognition.” Most of the instances of copied phrasing contain biographical information....
...(Friedman himself admitted that she “did all the work and I got a lot of the credit.”)...
...For anyone who thinks the Conservative party is turning back towards its small state beliefs, may I present the Football Governance bill....
...Reeves orders a scone and jam while I order the Yorkshire curd tart....
...Now try this This week, I mostly listened to Charli XCX’s Move Me while writing my column....
...Reeves at a talk about the book on Thursday said it had an extensive bibliography but “not everything got in there”....
...Even so, if it were not so serious it would be funny to imagine the chancellor inheriting his legacy after a shock election victory: “After looking at the books I find things are much worse than I realised...
...A lot of this is just finding clever ways to get headlines that essentially read “I don’t hate business and I’m just a sensible moderate, says Rachel Reeves”....
...First, I will never undermine our economic institutions. It was the Labour government that gave the Bank of England independence and I will protect it....
...Richard Leonard, former Labour leader in Scotland, expressed anger at Reeves’ comments....
...As embarrassing as our story about Reeves’ book is for the shadow chancellor, she has a form of words that will, I think, prove durable....
...In your front page report by George Parker, Sam Fleming and Delphine Strauss, “Reeves recalls Brown’s fiscal rule with pledge to borrow only for investment” (March 20), you note that Gordon Brown, Tony Blair...
...“I would much rather be straight with the British public than make a promise I can’t keep,” said Starmer, who earlier this week had denied he was “scaling back” his plan....
...“You are the most earnest man I have ever met,” notes his rather more roguish counterpart Sherrill Lynn (Dennis Quaid) on our behalf....
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