Chris Riddell on Rachel Reeves’ burnt offerings to the golden calf of growth – cartoon

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A third Heathrow runway, planning law reform to build more houses and a windfall tax on oil and gas – but will it all make up for the cost of Brexit?

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Rachel Reeves on her knees in front of a golden calf on a plinth labelled growth. Beneath the plinth are offerings labelled ‘Planning Laws’ and ‘Oil Platforms’. Reeves is holding up another offering labelled ‘Third Runway’. She is chained to a a huge ‘Brexit’ troll behind her with a studded cudgel with which it is smashing things. The troll is laughing and saying “That’s it, Rachel, now try not to be so wooden and remember to smile when you pretend green aviation fuel is a ‘game changer’…”, panel 1

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