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Labour must prioritise better growth

New Statesman 29 Jan 2025
But the UK’s challenge isn’t just more growth – it’s better growth ... Recall the woman in Newcastle who, when confronted with the risk that Brexit might hit the UK’s GDP, shouted. “That’s your bloody GDP ... “That’s our GDP, not just yours”.
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London Heathrow’s long-awaited expansion a step closer

Gulf-Times 29 Jan 2025
She cited a Frontier Economics study, which projects that Heathrow’s expansion could contribute an additional 0.43% to the UK’s GDP by 2050 ... Additionally, Heathrow handles 21% of the UK’s total trade, ...
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Politics latest: Chancellor Rachel Reeves backs new Heathrow runway and Old Trafford revamp to help ...

The Daily Mail 29 Jan 2025
Making announcements centred around growth, Ms Reeves claims the UK has the potential to be 'Europe’s Silicon Valley' as she promised improved transport connections across northern England ... UK to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on investment.
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Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind | ...

The Guardian 29 Jan 2025
We used to call this ‘trickle-down economics’, and we learned a long time ago that it is a myth ... as the Brexit vote loomed, a London professor warned the geordie heathens that leaving Europe would harm the UK’s economy ... “That’s your bloody GDP ... ....
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Politics latest: Chancellor Rachel Reeves backs Old Trafford revamp to help revive UK's flagging economy ...

The Daily Mail 29 Jan 2025
Making announcements centred around growth, Ms Reeves claims the UK has the potential to be 'Europe’s Silicon Valley' as she promised improved transport connections across northern England ... UK to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on investment.
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Immigration gives Rachel Reeves a get-out-of-jail-free card to save the economy

The Daily Telegraph 29 Jan 2025
Official figures project the UK’s population will rise by almost 5m people to 72.5m by 2032, bolstering public finances by increasing the size of the economy ... That is to deliver higher living standards across the UK by the end of this decade.
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PMQs LIVE: Kemi Badenoch attacks Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer's 'completely mad' growth plans after ...

The Daily Mail 29 Jan 2025
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves plans to kickstart the UK economy have been branded 'completely mad' by Kemi Badenoch ahead of Prime Minister's Questions ... UK to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on investment ... UK to 'reset' relationship with the EU.
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Why not all plans for a four-day working week would be a win for health

Alternet 29 Jan 2025
... being proposed as part of new flexible working legislation in the UK ... In 2017, the economic cost of insufficient sleep in the UK alone was estimated as US$50 billion (£40 billion), up to 1.86% of GDP.
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PMQs LIVE: Kemi Badenoch accuses Keir Starmer of 'destroying growth' and misleading Parliament in fiery ...

The Daily Mail 29 Jan 2025
UK will not join EU customs union, PM says ... He called for the establisment of a UK-EU customs union, accusing the Conservatives of setting up 'growth-cancelling trade policies' ... UK to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on investment.
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Downing Street want new Heathrow runway plans by June despite threat of Labour split as ...

The Daily Mail 29 Jan 2025
UK will not join EU customs union, PM says ... He called for the establisment of a UK-EU customs union, accusing the Conservatives of setting up 'growth-cancelling trade policies' ... UK to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on investment.
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Sadiq Khan leads Labour backlash as Rachel Reeves says Heathrow third runway MUST happen to ...

The Daily Mail 29 Jan 2025
Watched by Cabinet ministers - but notably not Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, who has opposed the Heathrow plan - Ms Reeves said a bigger airport would increase GDP and make the UK the 'world's best-connected place to do business'.
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Brexit impact on island of Ireland to become clearer - think tank

RTE 28 Jan 2025
The Office for Budget Responsibility, the independent public body which monitors government spending and provides forecasts on future economic forecasts, has previously stated that Brexit will result in a 4% reduction in the UK's GDP.
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Times letters: Donald Trump’s call for a bigger UK defence budget

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 Jan 2025
Write to letters@thetimes.co.uk. Sir, The possibility of not raising defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP before the next election is a grave risk to our national security (“Starmer to defy Trump over cash for defence”, Jan 27) ... Comment ... .
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Ministers pledge to double the size of the Oxford-Cambridge economy in boost for life sciences sector

Building 27 Jan 2025
Initiative has potential to add £78bn in GDP to UK economy ... Fast-tracking growth plans for the region, through measures such as planning reforms, would add £78bn of GDP to the UK economy by 2035, ...

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