Labour must improve lives by time it leaves office, says Reeves

Rachel Reeves said she would not be ‘dragged off course by every siren call’ as she defended her handling of the economy at a conference in London (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

If children from “ordinary backgrounds” are not living “more fulfilled lives” by the time Labour leaves office, it will be “time for somebody else to take over”, the Chancellor has said.

Speaking to the Global Progress Action Summit in London, Rachel Reeves acknowledged people were “unhappy” at the state of the economy.