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Developers need not “worry about bats and newts” before they start building, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said in a speech that outlined her plans to reform the UK’s planning process. Reeves’ comments suggest construction firms and housebuilders will be allowed to destroy habitat if they pay into “a nature fund”…

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

The chancellor’s growth speech was not perfect – but it is a start after decades of underinvestment in Britain

Days after Rachel Reeves highlighted life sciences as UK strength, firm decides against site expansion

Five years after we left the EU, people are still paying the price. We’re ready to work with Westminster to forge closer bonds with Europe, says Scotland’s first minister John Swinney

A LABOUR MP has slated his party’s growth agenda saying it “reeks of panic”.

The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Hundreds of homes could be demolished in the west London villages of Harmondsworth and Longford if the expansion gets the green light.

Shadow chancellor has few opportunities to make a mark, and this time he returned to the land of futility after just six minutes

The UK chancellor Rachel Reeves says the Labour government will go “further and faster” to kick-start the British economy. Economic growth – to raise living standards and fund public services – is apparently a core mission of this government.

Exclusive: FBU general secretary issues a warning to Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer over pay and workers rights following the chancellor’s speech