Rachel Reeves has defended her cut to the winter fuel allowance and abandoning infrastructure projects, arguing that the decisions taken in the early weeks of the Labour government would pave the way for a more optimistic economic future.
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Giving her first speech to the Labour conference as chancellor, Reeves said she had been forced to make unpopular cuts because of the economic situation she had inherited from the Tories
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