Good morning. Welcome to HM Revenue and Customs’ Stakeholder Conference. I am delighted to see so many of our key tax and customs stakeholders in the room today, giving me an early opportunity to meet you all.

I am honoured to have been appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and I’m looking forward to working with JP Marks and his team, in close collaboration with customers and stakeholders, on HMRC’s vital transformation, as we deliver against our ambitious plans in the months and years ahead.

By way of introduction; I started my career at HM Treasury and have spent the past decade working on economic policy, including time as a senior economist at the Resolution Foundation.

I am proud to be Labour’s first MP for Chipping Barnet, and the government’s growth champion since joinin

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