Rachel Reeves aligns Labour with Biden's financial coverage in Washington speech

Labour will take inspiration from Joe Biden to create jobs and cut back inflation with an strategy branded by the shadow chancellor as "secureonomics".

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In a speech on the Peterson Institute in Washington DC, Rachel Reeves outlined a mission to make sure financial safety throughout the UK by rebuilding Britain's "industrial foundation".

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This will imply "investing in the sectors and technologies that will determine our future economic success", she mentioned.

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Ms Reeves additionally advised the present Brexit deal could be "reviewed" beneath a Labour authorities by 2025 if it wins energy on the subsequent election.

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She dubbed her technique "securonomics", which she mentioned would imply a much bigger position for the federal government in operating the free-market economic system and fostering new partnerships with worldwide allies.

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Aligning the coverage with the Biden Administration, Ms Reeves mentioned the US President was "rebuilding America's economic security" with a extra lively state and trendy industrial technique - as she heaped reward on his Inflation Reduction Act.

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The landmark bundle of tax breaks and subsidies seeks to curb the deficit and spend money on inexperienced expertise and clear vitality in an strategy dubbed "Bidenomics".

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Labour has beforehand mentioned an Β£8bn nationwide wealth fund would lead to a zero-carbon economic system "made in Britain" and has dedicated to take a position Β£28bn a 12 months within the "green economy" - two insurance policies Ms Reeves promoted in her speech.

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She mentioned "errors in economic policymaking allowed Britain's economy to weaken" - citing the "long, hard years of austerity and the chaos of our recent governments".

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Ms Reeves mentioned: "Securonomics can right these wrongs.

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"By drawing on the expertise and energy of thousands and thousands of working folks in each a part of the nation.

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"By forging a new partnership between an active state and dynamic open markets, and by fostering a new era of global partnerships between nations with shared values and interests."

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Tory chairman Greg Hands dismissed the plans as "the same old Labour ideas", and declared that his social gathering "will take no lectures from Labour" on the economic system.

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Ms Reeves harassed her strategy "won't mean trying to become a British version of America".

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But she advised Labour would hope to deepen and redefine UK-US ties as a "green special relationship", with a give attention to renewable vitality corresponding to offshore wind and carbon seize and storage.

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On Brussels, Ms Reeves expanded on Sir Keir Starmer's suggestion that Britain wants a "better deal" with the EU, saying a assessment of the present laws would start by 2025 beneath Labour.

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"Britain with Labour will be a trading nation, exporting across the world and open to business and investment at home," she mentioned.

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"Britain cannot, should not and - with Labour in power - would not try to go it alone.

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"In 2025, the UK's cope with the European Union might be reviewed.

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"While there's no going back into the single market or the customs union, with Labour we would make trade easier with Europe, and rebuild ties with our closest neighbours."

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