Rachel Reeves: “For years, decades, we have known that a third runway is needed but we have failed to build one.”

It has been the privilege of my life to serve as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The economy today is stronger, fairer and more resilient because of the choices we have taken as a Labour Government over the past two years.

I am absolutely certain if we could go back two years, there are choices that I made that would be different.

Governing Britain is never easy.

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.