Rachel Reeves has simply delivered her Labour convention speech because the UK’s first feminine chancellor, defending the “arduous however truthful” selections that Labour should make. She referred to as Labour the occasion of “financial duty”, however there stays a lot discontent over winter gasoline allowance cuts to pensioners, after which there’s a donation scandal that’s dressed a lot of the dialog at this 12 months’s convention.
With a speech centered on enterprise, there was one line that got here up many times: “that’s the Britain we’re constructing”. However how do you ship change and progress if the railways aren’t working? And public providers aren’t working? The place will the £16bn come from if taxes aren’t being raised?
To speak about all of this on day 2 of the Labour Occasion convention in Liverpool with Krishnan Guru-Murthy is Channel 4 Information’ Political Editor, Gary Gibbon, and Economics Correspondent for Channel 4 Information, Helia Ebrahimi.
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