Infrastructure investment and planning reform two of ‘three pillars’ of party’s economic strategy 

A Labour government would put planning reform “at the very centre” of its economic policy, the shadow chancellor has announced. 

In a major speech to business leaders yesterday (Tuesday), Rachel Reeves set out the three pillars of an economic strategy which she said would usher in “a new chapter in Britain’s economic history”. 

Delivering the annual Mais Lecture in the City of London, Reeves said the UK was standing at an “inflection point” as it had at the end of the 1970s.