Rachel Reeves confirmed that the government will throw its weight behind a third runway in Heathrow, claiming it will make the United Kingdom “the best connected place in the world to do business.”
In a speech at Oxfordshire about her plans for national growth, the chancellor said: “We cannot acknowledge the decision anymore.” She said that the London Center “connects to emerging markets all over the world and opens new growth opportunities.”
Reeves claimed that the issue of expansion at the most crowded European airport is “stronger than ever.” She insisted that the expansion of carbon emissions in the government be achieved, claiming: “We are already taking great steps towards cleaner and more green flying.”
The government’s plans for Heathrow are likely to confirm anger among environmental activists, who argue that it will make it impossible for the UK to achieve the goals of carbon emissions.
The speech has identified a set of “supply aspect” policies that Reeves said would start growth, from gathering environmental organization to transportation projects.
The Chancellor also stressed the importance of establishing a smoother trading relationship with the European Union, which she said will be in the “national interest”. She said that the Minister of Business, Jonathan Reynolds, who is in a speech on Wednesday, will soon travel to India in pursuit of it Trade and Investment deal.
Reeves is under pressure to provide the promise to work with a stronger economy: the latest official figures indicate that the growth land stops in the second half of 2024.
The advisor defended her controversial decision to impose an increase of 25 billion pounds in the national insurance contributions to the employer in her budget in October.
She admitted that there are effects on British business-but their critics did not put an alternative. “I accept that there are costs of responsibility. But the costs of inadequacy were much higher: those who oppose my budget also know this.”
The consultant’s speech was delivered to an audience of business leaders at a vast factory in Oxfordshire, run by the German company Siemens, making the magnet for use in medical scanners.
In addition to Reynolds, many other cabinet ministers in the public, including the Minister of Environment, Steve Reed, Minister of Labor and Pensions, Liz Kendall, and Minister of Transport, Heidi Alexander.
Reeves was keen to highlight the possibilities of creating a “growth passage” between Oxford’s research centers Cambridge Including the reopening of the railway between the two cities of the university, via Bidford.
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“At the present time, it takes two and a half hours to travel from Oxford to Cambridge by train,” she said, adding that there is also affordable housing shortages across the region. “We will fix that.”
Reeves also listed a barrage of other projects supported by the government throughout the United Kingdom, from Trans Benin, to the efforts made to renew and reopen the Donkster Sheffield airport and the creation of a new collective transport system for West Yorkshire.
The chancellor said she “really shocked” about the slow decision -making when planning. She highlighted a solar farm in Cambridgeshire, which first grew up with the government in 2021, adding: “It is ridiculous.”
I promised to set a draft law for planning and infrastructure in Parliament this spring, which “would” mainly fit our approach to environmental organization “, which makes it difficult to object to new developments.
