Chancellor says overall government won’t face cuts in real terms before key conference speech. Delegates protest about decision to delay vote on winter fuel payments cut, calling it 'outrage' 10:58 The Labour leadership’s attempt to postpone the debate and vote on the winter fuel allowance cut (see 9.

In her first major speech as Chancellor to Labour conference that was briefly interrupted by hecklers, Rachel Reeves attempted to strike a more optimistic tone after recent gloomy warnings

Rachel Reeves outlined a range of personal finance measures in her speech to the Labour Party Conference. Rachel Reeves attempted to strike her most optimistic tone yet for the future of the UK economy and insisted there would be "no return to austerity".