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Healey offers upbeat vision but sheds little light on how it will be paid for
UK NewsPolitics•September 28, 2026 at 2:46 PMNational

Healey offers upbeat vision but sheds little light on how it will be paid for

By Heather Stewart Economics editor•The Guardian - UK News

With the budget a month away, chancellor gives little indication in conference speech of where money will come from to reindustrialise BritainHealey vows to stick to fiscal rules in budgetUK politics live – latest updatesJohn Healey cheered the Labour faithful with his first conference speech as chancellor, offering an upbeat vision of a reindustrialised Britain with fresh opportunities for young people, but he gave little sense of how he intends to pay for Andy Burnham’s radical plans.Healey’s budget next month is widely seen both inside and outside Labour as the moment when the prime minister’s radical rhetoric about ditching 40 years of neoliberal orthodoxy risks crashing into fiscal reality. Continue reading...

With the budget a month away, chancellor gives little indication in conference speech of where money will come from to reindustrialise Britain

John Healey cheered the Labour faithful with his first conference speech as chancellor, offering an upbeat vision of a reindustrialised Britain with fresh opportunities for young people, but he gave little sense of how he intends to pay for Andy Burnham’s radical plans.

Healey’s budget next month is widely seen both inside and outside Labour as the moment when the prime minister’s radical rhetoric about ditching 40 years of neoliberal orthodoxy risks crashing into fiscal reality.

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