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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Rachel Reeves seeks to win over business chiefs in Davos with Thatcherite defence of Budget

Rachel Reeves was seeking to win over business chiefs in Davos to invest in Britain by portraying herself as the “Iron Chancellor” who will stick to her fiscal rules and deliver economic growth.

The Labour Chancellor adopted one of Margaret Thatcher’s famous phrases, known as TINA, to argue that ‘there is no alternative to our last Budget”.

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