Opposition parties accuse Healey of offering ‘more of the same’ in his first major speech as chancellor – UK politics live

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Chancellor accused of being ‘continuity Rachel Reeves’ and giving ‘dire and dreary speech’ as JLR announced 4,000 job lossesChancellor to argue UK economy can ‘turn corner’ despite bond market turmoilHealey says Andy Burnham set out in his statement to MPs last week what he thought had gone wrongThe fundamentals of our economy [were] hollowed out through a series of past policy decisions, political power was centralised, weakening the relationships between the people, the businesses and the institutions who can make things happen beyond Whitehall. The economic enablers were privatised and outsourced, leaving accountability to a thicket of arm’s length bodies

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