Rachel Reeves: “Delays, hidden costs and deals collapsing at the last minute are not only bad for home buyers, it’s bad for the economy…”

Governing Britain is never easy.

But look at the big picture, look at the plan, look at the strategy that I have been pursuing, and that strategy was to return stability to the economy, to enable interest rates to come down.

Radical change is only possible if it comes with credibility. That is my mission as Chancellor. That is the mission of this government, and I know it will remain the mission of the next.

I think that we need to be much bolder and go much further moving towards a trusted economic and security partnership, where the default is the UK is included not excluded.