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In first conference speech as PM, Labour leader will defend tough rhetoric but say there is light at the end of the tunnel

THE protester who was aggressively kicked out of Rachel Reeves’ speech at Labour conference described the experience as “brutal” ...

Exclusive: The party has been criticised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) for refusing to promote its fringe event, titled ‘Justice for Palestine: Confronting genocide and ending apartheid’

Exclusive: business secretary says some headlines about planned employment bill ‘pretty obviously wrong’

Conference speech was light on detail and not the pivot away from doom and gloom that critics wanted

In early August 1979,  Peter Cropper, a special advisor to newly-installed chancellor of the exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, sent a memo to colleagues. They should, he warned them, "stop being so downbeat. The world economy may be gloomy but there's absolutely no need for us to be gloomy."  

Labour chancellor was heckled about the sale of arms to Israel as she made her speech to her party’s annual conference in Liverpool

Chancellor tells conference she will ‘look at the value and benefits of investment and not just the costs’

British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has promised not to return to an era of public spending cuts despite the dire state of the U.K.’s national finances