challenged Chancellor of the Exchequer about her “five year plan” with the two wmen heatedly talking over each other at one point.
“You’re thinking five years then to find space for the plan. I suppose the problem is, is winter payments gone instantly. Everything else feels long term.
“Everybody was looking to you yesterday to think, what is it that’s going to give us hope? You’re making long term plans to build infrastructure.
“Ordinary people can’t even make plans on what their is going to be when they have to renew, or what their rent might go up to, or what the prices are going to be in the shops. Do you see what I mean?” Garraway asked as Reeves as she appeared on the programme to discuss her plan for economic growth.
In response, Reeves defended her plan, saying: “It’s right to make the long term decisions to put our country back on the right path.”
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Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway challenged Rachel Reeves over her long term policies (Image: ITV)
“But I am also confident, because of the planning changes and the regulatory changes that we’re making as a government, that these big projects don’t have to sit in the pipelines, clogged up in the courts for years. We can actually crack on and deliver them.
“We’ve committed to build one and a half million homes in this Parliament,” she said as Garraway cut across her.
“You’re talking four or five years. You have to give us something as the Chancellor. Will things get better this year. We’re only in January. Can you promise anything by December?” she pressed.
Yes, we’re going to build those homes in this Parliament. We’re cracking on and getting those homes built. We’re signing off decisions on wind farms, on solar farms, a commitment to a new stadium at Old Trafford.
“We are upgrading the Trans Pennine route to make journey times easier between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield. Those things are happening right now,” Reeves responded.
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Rachel Reeve defended her plans for the economy during an appearance on Good Morning Britain (Image: ITV)
“And as I said before have gone down twice in six months. That is a far cry from the hikes in , borrowing costs and mortgages that we saw under the previous government.
“That’s been possible because we have taken the difficult decisions to return stability to the UK economy, drawing a line under the economic and fiscal mismanagement of the previous government. So that the bank has had that confidence to cut , with inflation now coming down at the most recent numbers down to two and a half percent, wages rising at twice that rate.
“Do we need to do more? Absolutely we do, which is why I made a number of our announcements yesterday, but we are beginning to move in the right direction.
“But I’m determined that we remove all of those barriers that are stopping our country from growing and to make sure that working people are better off with more pounds in their pocket,” Reeves insisted.