Rachel Reeves is “looking backwards” with her plan to expand Heathrow Airport, according to a Labour MP. Speaking on GB News, Barry Gardiner laid bare his opposition to the Chancellor’s ploy to add a third runway to the UK’s busiest airport.

British finance minister Rachel Reeves spelled out her plans to revive the country's slow-moving economy on Wednesday, adding to recent pledges to reform investment and planning rules with a commitment to back airport expansion at Heathrow.

Chancellor’s optimistic economic growth vision hit in the short term as Tesco and Lloyds announce hundreds of job losses and she admits fixing the economy is ‘not an easy job’

Rachel Reeves wants to push ahead with building and reform planning, but what does that mean for you?

Yet since the general election last July, this growth has proved elusive. In fairness, the UK economy been pretty stagnant for a long time. And as Reeves sometimes mentions, she arguably inherited the worst set of economic circumstances since 1974.