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Jack Kessler

OPINION - Rachel Reeves' Hammersmith Bridge vow shows Labour's conundrum

Stop me if you've heard this one before. The shadow chancellor appeared on the radio this morning and, when asked about a crumbling corner of the public realm, agreed it was bad and said a Labour government would fix it. Pressed on whether she was actually committing any funding towards this, Rachel Reeves declined:

“I’m not going to create pots of money without being able to say where the money is going to come from... I haven’t got a magic money tree." Get ready for, oh, another six month of this.

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