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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We've got the report from the Child Poverty Task Force later this year and we'll respond to that.
But it is important for all families that the numbers add up.
And that's always what I've done as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
We campaigned the election on economic stability, fiscal responsibility.
And we did that for a reason, because it was ordinary working people and businesses who paid the price for the economic mismanagement in the last parliament, when interest rates went through the roof, when inflation got out of control, when pensions were put in peril.
And because of that, my party, the Labour Party, accepted the crucial importance of economic discipline to support working families.
It's not intention, economic responsibility, to our commitments to make people better off.
It is part of that commitment because those five cuts in interest rates, as you know, by the Bank of England, but they've only been possible because of that stability with return to the economy.
Well, if you look today at my conference speech, I'll be setting out a youth guarantee.
Because at the moment, we've got a million young people who are not in education, employment or training.
That's one in eight young people.
I'm not going to let that stand.
It is a waste of their talent and potential, but it's also a huge waste for business and a huge waste for taxpayers that we are subsidising young people to be out of work when we want them to be in training or in paid employment.
And that's one example of how we're reforming the welfare state to get the costs down and at the same time bringing more people into work.
Well, that's not acceptable.
Welfare is not an alternative to work.
The welfare state is there if you need it.
You can't say, oh, no, actually, I'd rather remain on benefits than take that job opportunity.
And that's a really important part of what I'm setting out today.
It builds on what the previous Labour government did under Tony Blair with the New Deal for young people that said there was not an option just to stay on benefits.
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