Heckler interrupts the new chancellor’s speech in Liverpool
Rachel Reeves accentuates positives as she seeks to puncture gloomy economic mood at conferenceSchisms and sleaze plague Keir Starmer’s first Labour conference, risking long-term damage
After a short silence Reeves surveyed the scene and announced this was now a “changed Labour Party and no longer a party of protest”. The main hall burst into cheering and enthusiastic applause in support of the chancellor. Earlier she had sat at the top table in front of the hall and listened to a warm-up speech by Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary.
But before relief there must come pain. When Reeves took to the stage she initially soaked up acclaim for being the first woman chancellor, but then quickly warmed to her theme that she would not shirk difficult fiscal decisions. “We were elected because, for the first time in almost two decades, people looked at us – looked at me – and decided Labour could be trusted with their money,” said Reeves.
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