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

Well, those are decisions for Andy Burnham when he becomes Prime Minister.

I'm not going to pre-empt and I'm not going to do that.

But I'm incredibly proud of what I've done as Chancellor.

And I know absolutely that when Andy walks through that door of number 10, and I'm excited about what that means for our country.

And I signed Andy's nomination papers this week.

I know that when he walks through that door, that he is not going to have the same problems that we inherited two years ago, because we have returned stability and trust to economic policy in the UK.

And we have started that radical change of lifting kids out of poverty, investing in projects all around the UK and in something that I know that Andy cares passionately about, and that's fiscal devolution.

Andy was chief secretary to the Treasury when my good friend Alistair Darling was chancellor and my good friend Gordon Brown was prime minister.

And Andy absolutely knows, as I do.

But Andy knows, as do I, that the most successful Labour governments are those that combine change and radical change with a credible economic policies.

And that is what I know Andy believes in.

And I know that is what Andy will do as prime minister.

Absolutely up for devolving more powers and having more decision makers in the north of England.

We already at the Treasury have a campus in Darlington, and that is hugely successful.

We've got our second permanent secretary senior team based in Darlington, the sort of number 11 of the north, if you will.

And I think having more decision makers, both officials and ministers, based in the north of England and in different parts of the country would be a good thing for policymaking.

Because the truth is, I want to expand on this because it's something I care hugely about.

The truth is there are different needs, but also different opportunities in different parts of the country.

If you if you hold power in too narrow part of the country and too small a number of people with a sort of similar mindset and making decisions, they're not going to be the right decisions for places like my constituency in Leeds or Andy's in Wigan.

I think governing is hard today.

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