Rachel Reeves: “That’s exactly what my fiscal rules allow.”

Because if you lose control of the public finances, it is ordinary working people and businesses who pay the price with higher inflation, higher taxes and indeed higher interest rates.

I hope that whoever is chancellor, in the future... sticks to what I'm doing because it is beginning to bear fruit.

National security is economic security

When they succeed, we all succeed, and today’s major reforms are the most significant step in years to unleash their potential.