Andrew Neil in Brutal Takedown Rachel Reeves’ Economic Pledge as Growth Stalls

Rachel Reeves’ route to recovery

Has some of the gloom about the UK economy been overdone? Rachel Reeves certainly thinks so. This morning’s release by the Office for National Statistics suggests that GDP grew by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of this year, a period which saw the introduction of the National Insurance rise and the imposition of tariffs by Donald Trump. That’s down from 0.7 per cent in the first quarter but far ahead of City forecasts of 0.1 per cent. These …

Andrew Neil in brutal takedown Rachel Reeves’ economic pledge as growth stalls

The legendary broadcaster tore apart the Chancellor's record after new GDP figures were released this morning.

Rachel Reeves Has Just Been Handed An Unexpected (And Much-Needed) Boost

New figures show the UK economy has grown nearly twice as fast as America's this year so far.

Rachel Reeves’s jobs boast is spin – and the truth is worse

Share this post: Rachel Reeves has been telling the public that Labour has “created 384,000 more jobs” in its first year — and the “foundations” of the economy are fixed. But it's just a story that she's telling us. The way she counts those jobs tells us far more about political spin than [...] The post Rachel Reeves’s jobs boast is spin – and so are her other claims appeared first on Vox Political.