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The number one mission of this new government is to grow the economy.

We can't tax and spend our way to higher growth and to greater prosperity. I'm determined to do everything in my power to galvanise growth,

determined for this country to be the highest growing economy in the G7.

That is our most important national mission.

I want the economy to grow faster and stronger. And that's why we're making a number

of reforms on planning, on getting people working, and creating skills. England on our pensions reform,

we're just getting going. When Kirstama and his ministers came to office, they said they had one

priority among all others, growth.

And beneath the noise and the fury of British politics, there is actually almost universal

consensus about one thing, that the British economy is, and has been for a long time now,

utterly lousy, and that growth is the escape route of the nightmare

of a national pie which hardly ever gets bigger, but where there is an ever-strengthening

appetite from the public, from the state, from different government departments to consume what is

there. The problem for Starma and that promise is that the

clouds hanging over the British economy look increasingly heavy and foreboding. Government

borrowing costs are rising. The markets seem convinced that the British economy is stuck in a rut

and increasingly perhaps less convinced that Rachel Reeves has an answer.

In today's show, we ask how much of it, if any, is Rachel Reeves' fault?

But we're also going to be asking a bigger question.

Doesn't this go beyond any government or any chancellor?

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