Rachel Reeves
speaker
336 appearances
16 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 25 Jun
Rachel Reeves’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, you know, you've got these people who were defeated a year and a half ago in a general election.
Robert Jenrick, Andrew Rosendale, the other people whose names no one remembers, who lost the support of the British public a year ago, who are now changing the rosettes and think that that will change their fortunes.
It won't, and I do believe that the British public will see through that.
They kicked the Tories out for a reason.
They're not going to just re-elect them because they're now wearing a teal rosette rather than a blue one.
We have just had a budget, and what I was able to do in that budget was to build a headroom of £21.7 billion, more than doubling the headroom against our fiscal rules.
I think that now puts us in a very strong position that we will not need to do more on that front.
I'm not going to be able to write future budgets today.
The world is a very uncertain place, but that increase in the headroom was very much, I think, welcomed by markets.
and has given greater confidence to people that we can have stability on a fiscal front as well.
In addition, we've been really clear that the spring forecast from the OBR will not be a fiscal event in the same way that it has been
in the past and reform of the Office of Budget Responsibility means that we can now move to one major fiscal event a year so that you, Francine, and others don't ask me every week for a year what tax changes are planned.
We don't plan any tax changes in the spring and very much hope after the headroom that we have built in through difficult decisions on tax and spending that that provides the stability that we need.
Well, this is my fourth time in Davos.
I came twice as shadow chancellor to set out the opposition approach to the economy.
I learned a lot during those two visits.
about what international investors were looking for in the UK.
I knew they wanted stability.
I knew they wanted better support to leverage in the private sector investment, the cash that was sitting there but wasn't coming to the UK because of that uncertainty.
And I know that they wanted reform to how our economy works.
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