Rachel Reeves to pledge to ‘fight’ for growth in economic speech - The Chancellor will claim the so-called ‘Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor’ has ‘the potential to be Europe’s Silicon Valley’.

British finance minister Rachel Reeves will say on Wednesday that she is ready for a fight to push forward her plans to speed up the country's slow-moving economy that have grown in urgency after this month's bond market slump.

Rachel Reeves will unveil her plans to get the economy firing - with plans to unlock a string of major projects, including in Greater Manchester, Cambridge and London

Writing in The Times, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer criticised the ‘morass of regulation that effectively bans billions of pounds’ of investment.

When the chancellor stands up and delivers her much-anticipated speech on Wednesday - with all sorts of exciting schemes for new infrastructure and growth-friendly reforms - she will cast it as part of the new government's long-standing economic strategy.