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’.

The Chancellor will declare that “growth won’t come without a fight” as she unveils her plan to turnaround Britain’s ailing economy with billions of pounds of investment and new infrastructure projects.

That left Rachel Reeves, Britain’s chancellor, with an uphill task when she arrived at the Swiss alpine town to court investors at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. She met a raft of Wall Street bosses,

Rachel Reeves has bet her economic credentials on a commuter town boom in a hope it will spark growth in the UK. The chancellor is set to make a major announcement on planning reform amid questions about her own future in the Treasury and economic indicators putting Britain on the brink of a crisis.

More than £60bn could be released from blue-chip company retirement schemes under proposals to be outlined by the chancellor this week, Sky News learns.

It is a year since Rachel Reeves first fitted her snow grips to slither around at the World Economic Forum’s annual meet-and-greet in the Swiss Alps town of Davos. Pretty much all the then shadow chancellor needed to do was show up in her sombre navy ...

THE Budget tax raid on businesses has led companies to slash jobs at the fastest rate since the financial crisis, a survey shows. They are now cutting staff at the highest level since 2009, other

Chancellor Rachel Reeves inherited a bad economic hand from the Tories - but in her darkest moments, she has seen a string of fortunate breaks allowing her breathing space

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves joked about Elon Musk’s online “trolling” of world leaders, in a break from the UK government’s careful efforts to avoid responding to frequent criticism from the close Trump ally.

Plans to abolish non-dom status will be amended to allow a more generous phase out of tax benefits, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced. Reeves told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos that changes would be made to upcoming legislation to increase the generosity of a facility to help non-doms repatriate their funds to the UK.

When Santander boss Ana Botin met Rachel Reeves at the annual Davos jamboree last week, the atmosphere may have been frostier than the ski slopes outside. Just hours earlier, Botin had been forced to defend the bank’s commitment to Britain after reports that the Spanish lender was preparing to exit after 20 years because of over-regulation.

Britain should learn from Donald Trump and embrace his “boosterism” and “positivity”, the Chancellor has said.