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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Heather Stewart

Reeves’s talk of stability may be misplaced amid Iran war turmoil

Rachel Reeves delivers the spring forecast to MPs in the House of Commons
Rachel Reeves hoped to claim the credit for putting the UK on a more even keel. Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

“This government has restored economic stability,” Rachel Reeves told the House of Commons on Tuesday.

Yet the chancellor was speaking just moments after MPs had been hearing from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, about plans to evacuate British nationals from the escalating conflagration in the Middle East.

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