Rachel Reeves has set out a series of major announcements on infrastructure projects, including backing plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. She promised to go "further and faster" than previous governments after years of sluggish growth in the UK.

Speaking on Time Radio, Rachel Reeves said without the National Insurance hike, the government could have lost control of the UK economy.

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Heathrow 's third runway could be built and in use by 2035, Rachel Reeves has signalled. Asked for a timeline on the plans, which she backed on Wednesday, the Chancellor told BBC Breakfast: "We want to see spades in the ground in this Parliament.

The chance that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will meet her fiscal rules remains on a "knife edge", according to an influential think tank.

Rachel Reeves has been accused of “double standards” for previously opposing the expansion of an airport in her constituency. The chancellor gave a bizarre reason for her objection to the development at Leeds Bradford when quizzed about it by BBC presenter Charlie Stayt.

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The Government is set to push through new off-shore wind projects off the coast of Yorkshire, which it says will cause “unavoidable impacts to the seabed”.

Reeves aiming for planes on Heathrow's third runway by 2035 amid growth plan backlash - Green campaigners warn of ‘costly mistake’ on airport expansion that will take decades and drive up greenhouse g

Firms also want the Government to commit to more high-skilled foreign labour despite pledge to force down migrant numbers

Here's a round-up of the responses from the aviation and tourism industries after yesterday's announcement that a third Heathrow runway should proceed.