The Rachel Reeves Runway for Growth
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ a speech in which she backed a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport.
She said it’s "badly needed" and will help grow the economy by creating 100,000 new jobs and improving connectivity to global markets. But is it guaranteed, and what are the implications for emissions?
To answer those questions, Adam and Chris are joined by chief economics correspondent Dharshini David, and policy and analysis correspondent at BBC Verify Ben Chu.
And, we’ve been asking for your favourite celebrity cameos… today, a Newscaster makes one of their own.
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn, Anna Harris, and Shiler Mahmoudi. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, Chris. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello. |
| 0:06.6 | Were you here for the episode where James Landale was reminiscing about vox-popping the Fonds? |
| 0:11.0 | I was. |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah, you were, yes. |
| 0:12.5 | I remember that the actual day it happened, still so well. |
| 0:16.5 | It is one of those moments, isn't it? |
| 0:20.2 | That he'll never escape. |
| 0:21.7 | Well, it got lots and lots of attention from newscasters. |
| 0:24.4 | And we thought, well, seeing as one of the big news stories today to emerge from Rachel |
| 0:27.9 | Reeves' speech about growth is the government backing the third runway at Heathrow. |
| 0:32.2 | Why don't we go back to the Fons 15 years later and get his reaction? |
| 0:36.8 | What a great idea. Well, yes, great idea in theory |
| 0:40.0 | until you then get the actual reaction from Henry Winkler's publicist, which is, thank you for asking, |
| 0:45.2 | but Henry has no comment on this. Well, you've got to admire our journalistic endeavor and |
| 0:52.4 | appetite for news, even if in this occasion it was found wanting. |
| 0:56.7 | But is that a non-denial denial, where in fact he could be in favour of it? |
| 1:00.7 | Well, yes, this is it. |
| 1:02.0 | He's maybe planning a major intervention a little further down the track. |
| 1:05.5 | Well, Henry Winkler, aka the Fonz, had no comment on today's announcement about Heathrow, |
| 1:10.0 | but lots of our colleagues do, |
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