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Sharon Graham urges Labour to ditch ‘phoney fiscal rules’ to grow economy
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham

LABOUR must ditch the previous Tory government’s “phoney” fiscal rules to grow the economy, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has said.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to have debt falling as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in five years as part of its self-imposed fiscal targets.

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