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...Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, said last year: “Spending billions of pounds on nationalising things just doesn’t stack up against our fiscal rules.”...
...Reeves said the next election would be “an inflection point” similar to the one that faced the country in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher’s government replaced a tired Labour administration....
...Richard Leonard, former Labour leader in Scotland, expressed anger at Reeves’ comments....
...Reeves’ acknowledgment of the failure of Labour corporatism brought outrage from the left, as if it is a betrayal to learn from history. But her prospectus is very different to Margaret Thatcher’s....
...Prime minister Margaret Thatcher banned the travellers from staging a free festival and truncheon-wielding police intervened....
...I think we’ll see Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Bridget Phillipson, Keir Starmer of course. I think we’ll see relatively little of Angela Rayner. That would be my guess. Lucy FisherThat’s interesting....
...Margaret Boden, research professor at Sussex university, has three useful classifications: combinational, exploratory and transformational....
...Also this week, we’ve seen Margaret Ferrier, the MP, formerly of the SNP, now an independent since losing the whip. She has faced a 30-day suspension from the Commons for breaking the Covid rules....
...And Margaret Thatcher wanted the whole country to take part in capitalism and buy shares in this soon to be privatised industries that feature people who are going “Tell Sid, tell Sid”....
...Major in 1990 replaced an unpopular Tory leader and premier — Margaret Thatcher — and two years later claimed that tough economic decisions he had taken were producing “green shoots” of recovery....
...Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will dodge the question in several ways, including by saying the precise size of the budgetary hole is unclear....
...As his opposite number Rachel Reeves gamely tried to react, Pat McFadden, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, looked ashen....
...Can Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng navigate these crises, or at least persuade UK voters that they are better placed to do so than Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves?...
...Reeves said that, while Sunak’s hero was Margaret Thatcher’s tax-cutting chancellor Nigel Lawson, the chancellor was more like “Ted Heath with an Instagram account” — a reference to the 1970s Tory prime...
...This law under Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves would be much more mainstream....
...It came as Margaret Thatcher’s government was sunk in the polls, beset by crises and social division. Yet it would be another 12 years before Labour won again. The parallels are inexact....
...Rachel Reeves, Labour’s shadow chancellor, said that many of the country’s woes were the fault of the Conservative government....
...The standards committee — whose members include Margaret Beckett, a former Labour foreign secretary, and Jeremy Wright, a former Tory culture secretary — refused to comment on Monday....
...Between July 2020 and April this year, Benham and Reeves estimates the number of London properties purchased by Hong Kong residents increased by 144 per cent to 1,932 compared to the same period 12 months...
...Margaret Hodge, a prominent Labour MP and former chair of the public accounts committee, described the figures as “outrageous”....
...Rachel Reeves, Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “Ministers must urgently get a grip of the huge waste and delays to this failing programme.”...
...The 35-year old – born in the year Margaret Thatcher became prime minister – has been tipped by some colleagues as a future Labour leader....
...Margaret Hodge, chair of the public accounts committee, estimates that half of all public spending on goods and services goes to private providers....
...Perhaps it was his choice this time of fantasy that did it; what Margaret Atwood refers to as “speculative fiction” might sometimes struggle for mainstream literary recognition but it still fares better...
...Christine Reeves, a pensioner, said Mr Carswell had always been a good MP. "I like him but I don't trust Ukip," she said....
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