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Property developers and Tory think tanks welcome Reeves’ planning reforms
Roof workers building new houses in Derbyshire

PROPERTY developers and Tory think tanks welcomed new Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ commitment today to grow the economy through planning reforms.

And environmental campaigners backed her announcement scrapping the ban on onshore wind farms.

In her first major speech as Chancellor, Ms Reeves pledged to “fix the foundations” of the economy while complaining, predictably but not untruthfully, that she had been handed a mess by the outgoing Tories.

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