Rachel Reeves
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202 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
Rachel Reeves’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But even that day was better than the 14 years in opposition when I was powerless to change anything in this country.
You know, I talked to my friends and people wrote to me saying, you know, that happened to me once.
And the only difference is I was on the telly.
And so, you know, people had difficult days at work.
But yeah.
And that's where you should cry, not on the television.
So that was my toughest day.
But standing up there and delivering a labor budget, standing outside number 11 Downing Street and doing that.
But actually, you think about the people I'm in this for.
I went to a school, and I spoke about this actually in my Labour Party conference speech last year, and it really brings home to me why I'm in this job.
And it was a breakfast club, it was 8.30 in the morning, and I was sitting on the carpet with this little boy, and he was playing with his Lego.
And he was really proud of what he was building, and he was telling me all about it.
And he was incredibly engrossed, and he was a really engaging and captivating little boy.
And at the end, I spoke to one of the teachers about him, and...
The teacher said to me, do you know what, Rachel?
When we started this breakfast club, this boy didn't talk.
He didn't talk at all.
The breakfast club provides more than the teacher's time or the breakfast cereal.
It provided an opportunity for that little boy and thousands and thousands like him to get to school a little bit early, to have that time, maybe a bit more personal time with a teacher or a teaching assistant, to start the day ready to learn.
to have maybe his horizons expanded a little bit and maybe a better future.
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