Rachel Reeves reached far and wide as she sought to revive the UK’s flagging economy with wind turbines, roads, airports, railways, trade deals, and proposed reforms to pensions, planning and the welfare system.

A major speech Wednesday promises a host of pro-growth policies to turn the UK economy around. But the hurdles in the chancellor’s way are huge.

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,

The chancellor said that allowing Heathrow to build a third runway would "create 100,000 jobs", boost investment and exports and "unlock futher growth". She cited a new report by the consultancy Frontier Economics which found it could increase the UK's potential GDP by 2050 by 0.

Big infrastructure projects are all very well, but talk is cheap.

The chancellor has made clear she wants to see economic growth, but the response from Labour MPs will be key in how its delivered.

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.