When the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, gives her growth speech next week, she has told officials she does not want to announce any more reviews or consultations. It has to be “doing, doing, doing” as one aide put it. “She is very impatient at the pace of change.”
In both the Treasury and No 10, there is a new restlessness after the past few weeks of economic turmoil and media onslaught – now the early months of getting their feet under the desk are over and the system should be made to work as they want it to.
