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...Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, on Tuesday pledged a Labour government would aim to borrow only to invest, echoing the fiscal rules of former Labour chancellor Gordon Brown....
...“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.”...
...Their successors Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer are repeating the trick, ruling out rises in income tax....
...The Mais lecture by Rachel Reeves, Labour’s shadow chancellor of the exchequer, was an attempt to answer that. It was not a bad one in the circumstances. But the circumstances are grim....
...When Gordon Brown made the Bank of England independent in 1997, it was a bold reform which also had the merit of being simple to enact....
...A recent report by the Energy Transition Institute at Robert Gordon University predicted this would fall to 87,000 by 2030 in a “managed and just” transition but plunge to 60,000 if there was a sudden halt...
...A new book by Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, has been found to contain examples of apparent plagiarism, including entire sentences and paragraphs lifted from other sources without acknowledgment....
...Barbie and Oppenheimer, two very different movies that both came out in 2023, is Stephen Bush’s year in a word. 2024 reading list: From an AI-guided future to scandals in the art world and new fiction from Rachel...
...Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’ suggestion that pension funds might be mandated to invest in fast-growing UK companies elicits similar anxieties....
...Paul de Leeuw, director of the Energy Transition Institute at Robert Gordon University, noted that most jobs in offshore wind were in “building things, rather than operating things”....
...But Sir Robert Buckland, a moderate Tory former minister, said: “Is Rachel Reeves really going to deviate from Hunt? Probably not....
...Sunday scaries | Rachel Reeves says she is “under no illusions” about the scale of the challenge that lies in wait for Labour if elected after the government adopted two of its policies to fund tax cuts....
...The firmest governing principle is that shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will not allow unfinanced spending. This is essential to reassure voters....
...“The widespread adoption of electric vehicles in the UK can’t be realistically achieved without the corresponding charging network to accommodate it,” said Gordon Balmer, head of forecourt lobby group the...
...Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, have recently joined Starmer in endorsing the reforming vision and drive of the “Iron Lady”, even if they do not agree with all...
...An incoming Labour government would have “a lot to learn” from Tony Blair’s era in Westminster, but it cannot simply espouse the party’s 1990’s political programme, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said...
...But it leaves shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves facing questions about how she would repair Britain’s public services without raising taxes if her party won the next election....
...And they’ve looked so closely at the Blair-Brown playbook from 1997 in which Gordon Brown spent a lot of time doing a similar process of reassurance....
...Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith. Premium subscribers can sign up here to have it delivered straight to their inbox every Thursday afternoon....
...“What climate change is doing is supercharging weather events,” said Rachel Cleetus of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read more. 5....
...this that made her so successful when she switched from being a campaigner to a politician, first as a member of the European parliament, for South Wales East, and later as a Foreign Office minister in Gordon...
...But he also told you he speaks quite regularly to Rachel Reeves. How plugged in is he? How much advice are they seeking from him?...
...Labour’s would-be chancellor Rachel Reeves warned of the scale of the challenge facing her party should it win the general election after the government appropriated two of its policies to fund tax cuts....
...: a creative Rachel, and a cautious one....
...Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, told LBC radio in February a Labour government would introduce an independent review....
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