Chancellor John Healey to promise ‘new age of industrialisation’ in speech to Labour conference – UK politics live

Healey to announce new facilities to maintain nuclear submarines on the Clyde Andrew Griffith, the shadow chancellor, has accused John Healey of offering the Labour conference “reheated announcements” in his speech later.Referring to Labour briefing overnight that three new floating docks will go ahead on the Clyde (see 7.54am), Griffith said:These are more reheated announcements without clarity on where the money is coming from. Additional docks were announced months ago in the defence investment plan, which still has a £4.7bn black hole.John Healey resigned warning that Labour’s failure to fund defence was making Britain unsafe. Now that he is chancellor,