Live: Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives first major speech on Labour’s plan for economic growth

Chancellor Rachel Reeves sets out her plan for the economy in a speech on Monday 8 July.
The UK’s first female chancellor will make kickstarting economic growth a “national mission” with major changes to speed up infrastructure projects and unlock private investment.
In her first major speech, Ms Reeves will vow to take “difficult decisions” because there is “no time to waste”.
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[@SinuousStudios]

Starts at 10:49

[@joshstather3543]

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[@Piano2and3]

She knew exactly how bad the finances were!! It's public knowledge. She thinks we're all stupid. It was so predictable she was going to say she didn't realise so she now thinks she has an excuse to put taxes up!!

[@informedchoice2249]

I really crave for someone to come and just speak without delivering a speech.

[@charlestubalike1035]

Reductionist tendency of the UK a must to be addressed. Culture is already so .....

[@DaveCorbey]

remember when Brown deregulated the finance sector and how well that went....prepare for the same with housing building!

[@TheKnexMaker]

more in 72 hours..... than 14 years. if they keep this up for the next 4-5 years we will really be on our way to recovery

[@Countryfever]

Fingers crossed 🙏❤️

[@lw1zfog]

words are cheap & time will tell

[@johnburns4017]

Just do not spend any more money on HS2.

[@California265]

88% of the country didn’t vote for labour

[@GetleOst]

Best get busy with the new homes - another two boats have just arrived.

[@teddyb4957]

I was so confident until she 'dropped the C bomb'..what, you missed it?...go back to 17.00...the time, not the Century!

[@joso7228]

Wow! A Government that tries do do something. The bots, Reformers and Tufton St Goons in the Comments are pathetic.

[@lw1zfog]

wow ! a polytrickian blowing hot air, who’d believe it 😂

[@xrp589baby]

when you TEAR UP the English countryside(to house Muhammed and Abdul)..you NEVER get it back this is SHIRE vs MORDOR territory now. this woman is SARUMAN!

[@carlyboy888bradford3]

Why wind power onshore and not expand existing offshore facilities instead of ruining this beautiful country and building council housing on green land

[@R0Ck50LiD-b5z]

In other words, privatise everything and turn the UK into a private debt client, like they did to third world countries. Turning the UK very quickly into a third world country.

[@tonzinholondon]

ok but... what is the plan?

[@xrp589baby]

tear up the English countryside to house Abdul, N'Bhutu and muhammed.....then build a LIDL(for them to work in)..then call it "growth".... this is MORDER/Saruman vs the SHIRE!

[@lw1zfog]

RoboReeves 🤖

[@nxu5107]

A lot of promises but very little in the way of how they deliver them. The HOW is missing. and it's scary.

[@henryyeoh8610]

Hello? How long have they been in the government? It's less than a week. Please enlighten me how will you deliver if you were in the government for less than a week...?

[@aiskef33]

Did you even watch the video?

[@user-ry6uf5dp1l]

All business are closed down The welfare business system is shutdowns, ???Y do we needed governments staffs, budgets cut ✂️ governments asap!! government ✂️ every things, Y do we needed government officials

[@rishiyanvarsha]

Okay but how are you going to do it? Rishi had a plan, what's yours? Not a single plan in thus speech

[@GetleOst]

So this is Labour's Plan for Growth? Change some planning rules? Is that it?

[@aiskef33]

That was only part of it, and it's only been 3 days they've been in power

[@xrp589baby]

@@aiskef33 so far I dont like it

[@paulmatthews9366]

I didnt watch it but did it involve printing money (MMT), and a bigger state and more tax and more migrants ?

[@jarrodglover2311]

No

[@paulmatthews9366]

@@jarrodglover2311 give it time. .. that's always the answer

[@jarrodglover2311]

@@paulmatthews9366 are you talking about the Tories? They repeatedly raised taxes and immigration was at *record* highs.

[@captricharddee3634]

Every Labour speech contains the word 'chaos'. The only chaos we're all going to see are these idiots over the next five years.

[@DarkhorseSJ]

Have you even been alive for the last 14? Lol.

[@DarkhorseSJ]

Pointless building homes no one can afford. How about getting the country in a state where wages rise, house prices and energy bills come down first?

[@JuanLinoleum]

I suggest you go away and look up how inflation works. Then you will realise why what you just said, although sounds nice, would destroy our economy and push inflation through the roof.

[@dog_chasing_cars7576]

House prices rise in part due to demand - reduced demand, reduced price. she also mentioned energy projects numerous times. your questions are being answered. How much, i dont know. but the point is there has been no significant building in either of these sectors for a long, long time.

[@Countryfever]

House prices are rising BECAUSE we don’t have enough homes. Just like anything in life, when they’re isn’t enough, it’s more valuable

[@jacranwell]

Completely deluded, and barely comprehensible. Is this the best they can offer?

[@joso7228]

You obvi weren't listening.

[@Phil_AKA_ThundyUK]

So, basically, a ton of buzzwords and inspirational targets with zero substance to how it'll all be achieved. Might as well ask me to fart rainbows.

[@chrisbutcher6840]

And still more than anything we've had in the last 14 years.

[@jayz12366]

The main details will be in policy documents, statements, legislation etc. She could speak for hours on planning reform but that isn’t the purpose of a press conference when the headlines written in the newspapers will be aimed at the general public who statistically have an average reading age of a nine year old child (and no that is not an exaggeration).

[@Phil_AKA_ThundyUK]

@@jayz12366 Wargh! :)

[@TheVyciok]

Literally gave a surface overview of the policy that will follow. Do you know, what the purpose of a press conference is? Or would you instead watch 5hrs of her explaining to all y'all dummies step by step what they will do? Don't imagine you having the attention span

[@IvanPianoworship]

"No time to waste" Dun see any credible plan leh

[@Woke-Fact-checked]

We are a screwed. Nigel for PM

[@stonzy87]

Nah, don't want a bunch a boozy yobs who lied to us about Brexit and blames everyone else for his cock ups as PM. We had that with Boris

[@sevecc939]

I would have thought he'd given you Russian bots a day off given your hard work recently. I laugh at these blatant bot posts now. Opposite effect to what you want to achieve isn't it? Lol.

[@joso7228]

Can you afford the Health Insurance when he scraps the NHS?

[@Woke-Fact-checked]

@@sevecc939 You mean the Russia hoax it turned out to be. Get with the times 😎

[@Woke-Fact-checked]

@@joso7228 yes