Chancellor Rachel Reeves has spent the last six months sabotaging the UK economy. Suddenly, she wants it to grow.

In an attempt to strike a more upbeat tone after months of gloomy economic warnings, Rachel Reeves told Labour MPs: 'If we get this right - and I know we will - the prize could be immense'

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,

Soon after her UK budget on Oct. 30, as economic sentiment plummeted and businesses protested higher taxes, an under-pressure Rachel Reeves had one key message for Treasury officials: “We need to go further and faster on growth.