British finance minister Rachel Reeves will say on Wednesday that she is ready for a fight to push forward her plans to speed up the country's slow-moving economy that have grown in urgency after this month's bond market slump.

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves will set out her goals for growth today — backing the construction of Britain’s biggest football ground. The Sun can reveal Manchester United’s plans for a 100,000-seater

Her growing army of left-wing critics don't care that taxes were at a record high when Labour took charge, and Reeves piled on another £40billion in her autumn Budget. Or that the nation’s finances are on a knife edge as she borrows another £30billion a year, lifting the national debt to new records.

Rachel Reeves to pledge to ‘fight’ for growth in economic speech - The Chancellor will claim the so-called ‘Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor’ has ‘the potential to be Europe’s Silicon Valley’.

Rachel Reeves will unveil her plans to get the economy firing - with plans to unlock a string of major projects, including in Greater Manchester, Cambridge and London

The Chancellor will declare that “growth won’t come without a fight” as she unveils her plan to turnaround Britain’s ailing economy with billions of pounds of investment and new infrastructure projects.

The chancellor is looking to turn the economy's fortunes around after sluggish growth continued following Labour's election victory last year.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce the creation of a high-tech mega-city linking Cambridge and Oxford in a desperate bid to “kickstart” the faltering economy. She will vow to grow the economy in a long-awaited economic growth speech following a wave of criticism from industry and warnings that her tax-raising Budget is destroying jobs.

Rachel Reeves has hit back at her critics, saying she has spent her life “proving people wrong” when asked if she is hurt by the nickname “Rachel from accounts”. Her critics have used the nickname to mock the beleaguered chancellor, who has been struggling to persuade the public - and UK businesses - that her plan for the economy is working.

When the chancellor stands up and delivers her much-anticipated speech on Wednesday - with all sorts of exciting schemes for new infrastructure and growth-friendly reforms - she will cast it as part of the new government's long-standing economic strategy.

That left Rachel Reeves, Britain’s chancellor, with an uphill task when she arrived at the Swiss alpine town to court investors at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. She met a raft of Wall Street bosses,

Manchester United’s plans for a new 100,000 capacity stadium as the centrepiece of a major regeneration project have been given a huge boost after the Government threw its support behind the proposals.