Rachel Reeves
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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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planning reform, regulatory burdens lifted, better trade opportunities with countries around the world.
That is what we are delivering as a government now.
I'm certainly not claiming that the first year and a half in office has been easy or that every decision that we've made has been one that's welcomed by business.
But when you look around the world, when you look at the delegations from around the world this week,
I hope people see in Britain, I hope that businesses see in Britain, a country that has returned to stability, that is bringing investment, is changing how the economy works, and is open, open to business, open to trade, open to investment, and as I set out today, open to talent as well.
You certainly ask interesting questions.
I think the British people recognise that the last year has been a challenging one, whether it is conflict in the Middle East, Russia's continued aggression in Ukraine, the need for higher defence spending and also increasing trade barriers around the world have put countries under a lot of pressure.
And no country, including the U.K., is immune from that.
But I've also been really clear that we will continue to meet the fiscal rules that I set out in my budget last year.
And we will get debt down as a share of our economy.
We will bring down the deficit and we will balance day-to-day spending with tax receipts.
And when we get the full forecasts from the Independent Office for Budget Responsibility, we will make sure that we are continuing to achieve those things.
In terms specifically of the headroom.
Yeah.
The headroom has been lower in the past.
It was as low as £6.5 billion in the last parliamentary session.
Obviously, more headroom would be good, but there's always trade-offs because, of course, to build more headroom, you would have to increase taxes further or cut spending further.
But we'll continue to manage that
balancing act.
But I recognize that in a world as volatile as it is today, having a bit more of a buffer can help absorb shocks.
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