John Healey: “the UK should be spending 3% by an earlier 2030 timetable, but warned the plan he was presented with this week moved too…”

Conflict and uncertainty increases inflation, threatens growth and pushes up costs for businesses and governments alike.

We’ve written to the cabinet to say that if we’re serious about new priorities as a second-stage Labour government we have to be serious about – and they have to be serious about – reprioritisation of their plans, their budgets,

demonstrated across a range of fronts that we’re a government that just is getting on with getting things done and that includes on growth

We’ll be watching closely for any suggestions that customers are being taken for a ride at the pump or the till.