Chancellor Rachel Reeves is signalling a huge change of heart - and it's not gone down well with some of her more deluded colleagues.
Rachel Reeves has been accused of a “Davos deal for millionaires” after announcing she was watering down moves to make wealthy foreigners pay more tax. The chancellor said she had been “listening to the concerns” of “non-doms” living in the UK.
Britain’s first woman Chancellor delivers the same old fudge, as Labour’s commitment to economic orthodoxy, seen throughout its history, always betrays working people, writes KEITH FLETT
A civil war has erupted in the Labour Party after it was reported that Rachel Reeves plans to approve a third runway at Heathrow Airport and an expansion of operations at Gatwick. In a speech next week, the Chancellor is also expected to support more flights at Luton.
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The verdict is in. The Gilt market has found the Chancellor Rachel Reeves guilty of reckless endangerment of the country’s finances. A large electoral majority led her to think the world would happily finance what she described in her Mais Lecture as the “smart and strategic state”.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. One reasonably reliable rule of economics is that markets will eventually always find you out. It’s taken just six short months for this to happen to Labour, with its fairytale promise to end austerity in public services without having to raise taxes on working people.
Rachel Reeves has suggested she will alter some of the more controversial non-dom reforms announced in the Autumn Budget.
The majority of Labour figures rallied around Reeves on Tuesday as she defended her plans against a backdrop of economic turbulence
Reeves – and Keir Starmer – desperately need the economic clouds to disperse if they are to start changing the public’s perception of the government. Although Labour insiders insist there is “no chance” of the prime minister dumping his chancellor, it is clear that grumblings about her performance are growing louder.
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The Chancellor has hit back in the escalating row with Sir Sadiq Khan and other senior Labour figures over Heathrow Airport expansion. Rachel Reeves on Wednesday said if Britain wants a strong economy the answer “can't always be 'no'” to projects that will create growth.