It has been a wild January for Rachel Reeves and frankly for economics in the UK and the world.When Labour swept to victory last summer, Reeves pledged she would be an "iron" chancellor, reining in public spending and improving the lives of working people through growing the economy.

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British finance minister Rachel Reeves spelled out her plans to revive the country's slow-moving economy on Wednesday, adding to recent pledges to reform investment and planning rules with a commitment to back airport expansion at Heathrow.

After six months of talking down the economy and warning of tough times ahead, the UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has changed her tune. She is now much more optimistic about Britain’s economic prospects and has announced a raft of measures including major pension reforms designed to unlock cash to boost growth and productivity.

Reeves confirmed the government is backing plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport, arguing it could create 100,000 jobs. The plans received parliamentary approval in June 2018, but have been stuck in limbo after legal challenges ever since.

Rachel Reeves has vowed to slash red tape and go for growth in a quest to make working people feel “better off”.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves says net zero will be critical to the UK’s future economic growth amid a flurry of investments in low carbon technology from the National Wealth Fund. During her speech on the economy at Siemens Healthineers,

There were a lot of different announcements in Rachel Reeves' push to revive the UK economy. The key takeaway, the bottom line of her plans, is that these changes will work - they will boost UK growth.

Chancellor’s optimistic economic growth vision hit in the short term as Tesco and Lloyds announce hundreds of job losses and she admits fixing the economy is ‘not an easy job’