Rachel Reeves will regret promising growth, growth, growth
Growth will be turbo-charged, animal spirits will be unleashed, and foreign investment will flood back into Britain. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is promising a Thatcher-style revival of the British economy if Labour wins power. But there’s a problem with the pitch that she will deliver in her keynote Mais lecture on the economy today: a Labour government isn’t going to deliver this promised growth. Reeves is setting herself up for failure. Labour’s proposals are painfully thin With at most only a few months left before she takes charge of the Treasury, as she inevitably will, Reeves is making it clear that she expects the UK to return to the 2.5