Rachel Reeves

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

I was just with finance ministers from other European countries earlier this week.

And governing is hard across a number of developed economies today.

There have been a lot of shocks in recent years, whether that's COVID, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, now the conflict in the Middle East, increasing barriers to trade around the world.

And at the same time, those things are going on.

You've also got this...

huge impatience for change.

And I absolutely get that.

And I think sometimes that change isn't happening at the pace people want it.

We've got to drive that change forward more rapidly so that people feel it in their everyday lives.

But we have to be careful to do it in a way that doesn't undermine that credibility and trust that we've rebuilt in the economy.

Because unless you have that,

Change of any sort isn't possible.

And that is what you have to marry up, really, as prime minister and chancellor.

Well, you see, I just don't see it in those terms, Laura, because I've been an MP now for just over 16 years and 14 of them were in opposition and two and a bit have been in government.

So Keir won't be Prime Minister in just over a week's time.

And Keir is a good friend.

He's more than a colleague to me.

He's been a good friend.

And it's because Keir changed the Labour Party that we've been able to start to change our country for the better.

And it's because of Keir that I am the Chancellor and the first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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