It has been a wild January for Rachel Reeves and frankly for economics in the UK and the world.When Labour swept to victory last summer, Reeves pledged she would be an "iron" chancellor, reining in public spending and improving the lives of working people through growing the economy.

British finance minister Rachel Reeves spelled out her plans to revive the country's slow-moving economy on Wednesday, adding to recent pledges to reform investment and planning rules with a commitment to back airport expansion at Heathrow.

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Rachel Reeves says she is going “further and faster” to kickstart the UK economy, but investors are unlikely to be persuaded

British finance minister Rachel Reeves will say on Wednesday that she is ready for a fight to push forward her plans to speed up the country's slow-moving economy that have grown in urgency after this month's bond market slump.

Reeves confirmed the government is backing plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport, arguing it could create 100,000 jobs. The plans received parliamentary approval in June 2018, but have been stuck in limbo after legal challenges ever since.

Rachel Reeves has vowed to slash red tape and go for growth in a quest to make working people feel “better off”.

But Labour’s political problem is that none of her plans will have an immediate impact on the UK’s anaemic growth rate – the economy has virtually flatlined for the last six months. From day one Reeves has put growth at the centre of her plans,

There were a lot of different announcements in Rachel Reeves' push to revive the UK economy. The key takeaway, the bottom line of her plans, is that these changes will work - they will boost UK growth.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves says net zero will be critical to the UK’s future economic growth amid a flurry of investments in low carbon technology from the National Wealth Fund. During her speech on the economy at Siemens Healthineers,

Chancellor’s optimistic economic growth vision hit in the short term as Tesco and Lloyds announce hundreds of job losses and she admits fixing the economy is ‘not an easy job’