Rachel Reeves has set out a series of major announcements on infrastructure projects, including backing plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. She promised to go "further and faster" than previous governments after years of sluggish growth in the UK.

EXCLUSIVE: Bob Lyddon believes the Chancellor's strategy will be a "re-run" of Gordon Brown's Private Finance Initiative, which he claimed "made schools and hospitals pop up in Labour areas at massive and continuing cost to taxpayers".

Talk TV star Harry Cole called for Rachel Reeves to be sacked as he discussed the Chancellor's recent speech on economic growth.

The chance that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will meet her fiscal rules remains on a "knife edge", according to an influential think tank.

For years the biggest enemy in the economic life of the UK was short-termism — a term hurled around like a rude word, often prefixed with “chronic” for good measure. But this morning as I listened to the chancellor speak from a Siemens factory in Oxfordshire,

The Chancellor has given the government’s backing to a third runway at Heathrow Airport, in yet another relaunch speech this morning. Speaking at a factory in Oxfordshire, Rachel Reeves reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to their growth strategy,

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has admitted there needs to be a 'balance' when it comes to slashing regulation in the wake of disasters like the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017

The Government is set to push through new off-shore wind projects off the coast of Yorkshire, which it says will cause “unavoidable impacts to the seabed”.

The chancellor says the expansion of Europe's busiest airport is "badly needed" - but the Green Party's Sian Berry calls it "the most irresponsible announcement from any government I have seen since the Liz Truss budget".

Firms also want the Government to commit to more high-skilled foreign labour despite pledge to force down migrant numbers

Rachel Reeves has confirmed the Government will support building a controversial third runway at Heathrow and other airport expansion plans despite fierce opposition from some in her own party. In a speech in Oxfordshire on Wednesday,