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Mind your language

Does Rachel Reeves know what ‘kickstart’ means?

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

To ‘kickstart economic growth’ is the first (‘number one’) of Labour’s five ‘missions’ to rebuild Britain. That is what the manifesto announced last year. The mission is not just economic growth, but kickstarting it.

On 29 January, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in a speech that she was ‘going further and faster to kickstart economic growth’.

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