Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, spoke to reporters this morning after the growth figures were released. She claimed that a Labour leadership contest would put economic recovery at risk. She said:
double quotation markLabour MPs have got an important decision to make today, but the numbers show that the economy is growing and that when we entered this conflict [the Iran war], our economy was growing strongly because of the decisions that I have made as chancellor. We shouldn’t put that at risk.
