Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the new Labour government has inherited 'the worst set of circumstances since the second world war.'
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the new Labour government has inherited 'the worst set of circumstances since the second world war.' The new Labour Chancellor opened her first speech in post by insisting economic growth would be Labour's national mission, before saying she would undertake an assessment of the Government's "spending inheritance".
This is about whether working people feel better off, whether our high streets and town centres are revived, whether there are good jobs paying decent wages in more parts of the country. "Success for me will be whether working class kids from ordinary backgrounds have more opportunities than they do today, and I think those opportunities have gone backwards in the last few years.
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