The Latest Breaking News from Rachel Reeves

The PA news agency picks through the main issues from the 2023 party conference season.

Conference speeches indicate party is keen to take on Tories on environment and that climate is core to its electoral strategy

Given the immense suffering the pandemic brought to so many people, profiteers cannot be allowed to get away with it, says Devi Sridhar of the University of Edinburgh

With company chiefs in attendance and an endorsement from Mark Carney, shadow chancellor sought to demonstrate economic competence

What can be learned from the Labour leader’s keynote address?

New Labour mastermind says channel is ‘undoing’ the Tory party. ‘And very timely it is too’

Amid new targets of 1.5m new homes over five years, the Labour party has pledged to review the planning rules which dictate where housing in England can be built. The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that “a common-sense approach” to deciding quite what land is worth protecting and what…

The shadow chancellor said the availability of migrant workers had led to slow take-up of robots and other technology.

Business will welcome Labour’s message of stability, but it may be too little, too late for our ailing health and education systems, says Josh Ryan-Collins, an associate professor at UCL

Of course Britain needs renewable energy infrastructure and more houses. But Rachel Reeves has laid out a ruinous path, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Heckler storms stage shouting ‘we are in crisis’ before being dragged off by security