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Rachel Reeves: “I think that we need to be much bolder and go much further moving towards a trusted economic and security partnership…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2026
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.
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Rachel Reeves
Labour Party

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Speech on UK-EU relations as Chancellor

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