Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government. I'm Nick Davies.

No more talk of black holes, no more doom and absolutely no sign of gloom, well, unless you don't like new

runways, because Rachel Reeves has a new, positive vision to sell. She wants the economy to grow,

and that, the Chancellor says, means cutting red tape, getting cranes in the sky, building

reservoirs, creating a new Silicon Valley and giving the green light to those new runways.

So how does she make this happen? Is government geared up to deliver all these projects?

How does this big push for economic growth match up with the government's other ambitions?

And will it all be enough to turn around Labour's increasingly gloomy polling fortunes?

We'll take a look. And then we're off to Scotland and Wales, because we have

published a new absolutely brilliant batch of ministers reflect interviews, featuring a trio of former

first ministers who haven't held back in their verdicts on Brexit, Boris Johnson, and making

devolved government work. All that to come.

Joining me throughout and making a welcome return to the podcast is Seb Payne. Hi, Seb.

Hi, how are you doing? I'm very well. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm sitting in one of the very

odd booths that we have here at the Times, which is kind of a soundproof thing. It's lodged in the

middle of the newsroom.

So I'm watching a lot of other people on podcasts and calls doing very similar things,

but I don't think that conversation will be as good as ours.

Very kind of you to say. Well, let's start with the story of the week. And that's Rachel

Reeves' big speech on economic growth.

Low growth is not our destiny, the Chancellor promised, at a manufacturing plant outside Oxford,

though she also admitted that growth won't come without a fight. So to preview the battles ahead for the government, we're joined by IFG's chief economist Gemma Tatlow. Hi, Gemma.

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