Rachel Reeves

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202 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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Newscast · The Rachel Reeves Interview (Her Last As Chancellor?) · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

In the first two years, we have delivered change.

We've delivered quite radical change in a number of areas, the number of kids we've lifted out of poverty, the infrastructure investment in energy and transport that's now going ahead and properly funded.

We've been able to do that.

Because as I kept saying during the general election campaign and since I've become chancellor, you have to build growth and change on that rock of stability and trust that I've managed to return to our economy.

But people are impatient for change.

I'm impatient for change.

And I totally get that people want to see their lives changed faster.

And that will be the job for Andy Burnham when he becomes a prime minister of our country in just over a week's time.

But he's becoming prime minister because of the majority that we secured.

And I also know because of the work that I have done.

Andy will take over an economy that is much stronger than the one that I inherited from the Conservatives just two years ago.

I do not accept the premise of that at all.

If you look at the economy compared to the one I inherited, we are in a much stronger position.

So since I've become chancellor of the Exchequer, wages have risen faster than prices in every single month for 24 months.

If you look at inflation, it reached double digits under the Conservatives.

Inflation today is lower in the UK than it is in the Eurozone or in the US.

But the most important measure, I think, is how quickly the economy is growing.

And I think if someone had said to me or to you two years ago, do you think within two years you can be the fastest growing economy in the G7?

And I think a lot of people would have said, well, good luck with that.

But actually, that is what the most recent data show.

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