Rachel Reeves needs to think twice about any EU deal when America is on the table [Video]

ONCE again the mantra from Downing Street is that the hunt for economic growth trumps all.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will this week unveil new rail and road links and a possible third runway at Heathrow.

It will require a huge effort to take on the nimbys and blockers who have delayed previous major infrastructure projects by years and blown budgets by billions.

But these projects will take decades to finish.

In the meantime, other policies are crippling business, such as workplace reforms and national insurance rises.

Worryingly, Reeves now says she is “absolutely happy to look” at joining an EU trade deal that would force us to permanently take rules from Brussels.

So-called dynamic alignment would be a significant step towards unpicking Brexit altogether – just when we should be securing a trade deal with Donald Trump.

In 1990, US GDP per capita was 16 …