An interview with Britain’s shadow chancellor
Rachel Reeves’s plans for a green economy
When Rachel Reeves, Britain’s shadow chancellor, describes the Labour Party’s industrial policy as the “sounds and the sights of the future arriving”, she may be imagining something like the train factory run by Hitachi, a Japanese manufacturer, in Newton Aycliffe, in north-east England. Ms Reeves visited its gleaming production line on November 11th. Next year, trials will begin on battery propulsion, using systems built for family cars to power trains through the stations and tunnels of Britain’s creaking railway network.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Green wedge”
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