In her speech later today, she is expected to say the prize on offer is immense, and she will lay out new funding to cut hospital waiting lists, build more affordable homes and rebuild crumbling schools.
The Treasury has already announced that the minimum wage will increase to 12.21. It falls short of the 12.60 an hour sum recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, but Ms Reeves described the 6.7 per cent increase as a significant step towards creating a genuine living wage for working people.
Labour has vowed not to raise taxes on working people in the days before the Budget announcement.
This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.
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