Labournomics: Ask Reeves

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09/22/23

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30m

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The shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is in the studio. She promises to hand more power to the UK economic watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), discusses Sir Keir Starmer’s comments on common ground with the EU, and tells Adam where Labour is on HS2. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere. Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Joe Wilkinson and Keiligh Baker. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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