RUSHES: Rachel Reeves speech to HM Treasury

Rachel Reeves speech to HM Treasury; Part 4 of 4 ENGLAND: London: INT Rachel Reeves MP (Chancellor of the Exchequer) speech SOT - This Labour government has been elected on a mandate to get things done, to get Britain building again / we will make those tough decisions to recognise that mandate With these steps we have done more to unblock the planning system in the past 72 hours than the last government did in 14 years / be in no doubt, we are going to get Britain building again, we are going to get Britain's economy growing again, and there is no time to waste We will end the prevarication and make the necessary choices to fix the foundations / we will introduce a modern industrial strategy to create good work and drive investment in all of our communities / we will reform our skills system for a changing world of work / we will tackle economic inactivity and get people back to work / we will take on the hard work of reforming our public services to make them fit for the future / we will work closely with our national, regional and local leaders to power growth in every part of Britain / and we will turn our attention to the pension system to drive investment in home grown British business and deliver greater returns to pension savers I know the voters trust cannot be repaid through slogans or gimmicks / only through action, only through delivery / the Treasury I lead is proceeding on that basis / I was appointed to this post less than 72 hours ago / upon my arrival I told Treasury staff that the work starts straight away / that work has begun / I've commissioned and received economic analysis from Treasury officials on the lost growth of the last 14 years, which I've set out today / I've instructed Treasury officials to prepare an assessment of the state of our spending inheritance to be presented to Parliament before the summer recess / I've started work with the Prime Minister to make the necessary preparations for the establishment of a growt...