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SHADOW chancellor Anneliese Dodds is starting to put in place Labour’s economic vision for the election in 2024.
Her speech at the Labour Connected event, held in lieu of the party’s annual conference, underlined her opposition to austerity and support for jobs-friendly environmental investment.
And she took the Tory government to task for the extraordinary waste of public money and cronyism that has seen millions of pounds go to Conservative donors for testing kits that were unsafe, and outsourced contracts fail to deliver.
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