2025-01-29
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Today.
Rachel Reeves versus the blockers and the bats, the newts and the NIMBYs.
Ministers from the United Kingdom are here in Davos, meeting with business leaders, pitching them on private investment in the UK.
Joining us right now is Rachel Reeves.
She's the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Good morning to you.
Good morning.
So the World Economic Forum in Davos is this crazy meeting in a resort in the Swiss Alps.
Snow on the ground.
There's a particular sort of tech bro look that you get, you know, with the Chile and the chinos and the very, very expensive looking shoes.
Rachel Reeves was in Switzerland last week to schmooze some of the richest and most powerful people in the world.
And the Guardian's economics editor, Heather Stewart.
There are kind of scores of world leaders there and the heads of kind of, you know, the International Monetary Fund, loads of big businesses.
Along with the Business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, Reeves set out her stall.
They sort of turned up with a message, really, that Britain is open for business, that they're willing to move obstacles out of the way, if you're a global business, to appeal to you, to make you think again about the uk.
My message to US investors and global investors to is, Britain is open for business.
We want your investment.
After the doom and gloom of Labour's first six months in power, Reeves tried to strike an upbeat tone.
There was even talk of, oh, we could do with a bit of Donald Trump's optimism.