It is day three of Labour’s latest strategy: to try to blame Nigel Farage for the forthcoming tax rises in the Budget. After Wes Streeting had a go on Monday, Rachel Reeves this morning has made a similar point. The reason she is looking to raise taxes in the Budget, she says, is because of Brexit. ‘There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long-lasting,’ she said. Next up, apparently, is Keir Starmer, who at one point is going to tell us that Farage is guilty of campaigning for Brexit and then walking away from its implementation. Given that he wasn’t, and never has been, prime minister or a member of the government, it is hard to see how Farage could have implemented Brexit, but never mind.

The plain truth is that taxes are being forced upwards because no government o

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