Rachel Reeves
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202 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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And there are more people in work than when I became chancellor.
First of all, for 24 months now, wages have risen faster than prices.
Now, that is on average, and so it's not the same for everybody.
But I am proud of my record there, because in the last parliament, people were worse off on average at the end of the parliament than they were at the beginning.
But look, this isn't just about lines on a graph.
This is about how people feel.
Yeah.
And I remember our first interview once I became chancellor in this room two years ago.
And you said to me, you know, are you going to lift the children out of poverty?
And I said, I'm not going to make a promise without being able to say where the money is going to come from.
And this is this point really about how you've got to combine change and radical change with credibility and with trust.
And I wasn't, when I became chancellor, able to say how we would fund that.
But at my second budget, less than a year and a half into this Labour government, I was able to announce the lifting of the two child benefit rule within universal credit.
And that was partly funded by changing gambling taxes, because look.
For 14 years, I was an MP and I was in opposition.
We were not short of promises on radical change.
What we were short of was trust and credibility.
Now, I have returned that trust and credibility to the economy and to Labour's economic policy.
And because of that trust and that credibility, we are now able to do those radical things.
I've had to make hundreds and hundreds of choices as Chancellor over the last couple of years, and they haven't always been easy choices.
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