11 June 2025, 15:48 | Updated: 11 June 2025, 15:51

By Jonathan Ashworth

Yes, there was familiar reference to the dire economic inheritance and Tory £22billion blackhole, but today the chancellor began singing a new tune.

‘The renewal of Britain must be felt everywhere’ she told the Commons.

Today, Rachel Reeves was delivering an unashamedly Labour message of investment across regions too often neglected by Westminster.

It’s something we at Labour Together, alongside ‘Red Wall’ MPs like Jo White have long been calling for.

There was rightly no diluting of her iron fiscal rules. Stability must always come first.

There won’t be any repeat under Labour of the Tory Truss experiment that sent mortgages soaring.

It beggars belief that Nigel Farage wants to repeat that barmpot experiment all over again.

His Deputy, Richard Tice, meanwhile, wants to slash spending to 35 per cent. That means deep swingeing cuts to public services.

Instead, Labour’s tough rules that guide decisions are designed to both protect mortgage payers as far........

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