Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will today launch a charm offensive with business leaders as she pledges to ‘restore Britain’s reputation’ if elected.
Ms Reeves will address bosses at a private event sponsored by US banking giant JP Morgan at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
She will use her speech in Switzerland to accuse the Tories of presiding over ‘fourteen years of stagnant economic growth and political uncertainty’. Last night Tory Party chairman Richard Holden told the Mail: ‘Once again Labour are talking down Britain… unable to say what they would do differently because they don’t have plan.’
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will today launch a charm offensive with business leaders as she pledges to ‘restore Britain’s reputation’ if elected
He added: ‘Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party cannot say how they would fund their £28billion a year spending spree because they don’t have a plan to pay for it.’
Ms Reeves is attending the conference with Labour business spokesman Jonathan Reynolds but not Sir Keir. The Government is being represented by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron and investment minister Lord Johnson.
Ms Reeves is expected to say political turmoil ‘has left Britain weaker’ and, if elected, Labour ‘will restore Britain’s reputation as a place to do business – we will be a trusted partner with business in delivering the change our country and our economy needs’.
n Labour published its ‘campaigning bible’ yesterday, but it failed to mention the party’s flagship £28billion green plan.
Sir Keir said at the weekend that the yearly commitment, expected to last until 2030, would be in the manifesto but it did not make the cut.