Rachel Reeves will boast that Britain’s economy has ‘beaten the odds’ in a ‘goodbye’ speech as Chancellor tonight.
Ms Reeves will argue that UK plc is ‘strong’ because of the choices she has made as she delivers her third, and almost certainly last, address at the Mansion House.
Insisting that the Government had made ‘huge strides’, the Cabinet minister is to argue that ‘investment is up, productivity is up, and wages are up’.
But the intervention comes as oil prices surge again on renewed chaos in the Middle East. Official figures last month showed that disposable incomes of households tumbled 0.8 per cent in
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