'Let's go and build it': Rachel Reeves promises new industrial strategy to turbocharge green growth

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'Let's go and build it': Rachel Reeves promises new industrial strategy to turbocharge green growth

Chancellor confirms new industrial strategy to be published next month, as she reiterates government's commitment to meeting clean energy targets

Rachel Reeves used her keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference this afternoon to insist there will be no return to austerity, as she declared "the era of trickle down, trickle out, economics is over"...

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