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Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

Reeves takes aim at Burnham’s ‘in hock to bond markets’ comment

Chancellor Rachel Reeves (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Rachel Reeves would like to be “less in hock to the bond markets” but the nation relies on them, she has warned in an attack on Andy Burnham’s pitch for the economy.

In a Times interview, the Chancellor said she takes her job “very seriously”, adding: “When you are issuing still tens of billions a year, you need to maintain that confidence.”

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