The October Budget was Reeves’s original sin

With hindsight, Rachel Reeves’s first Budget in October last year looks even worse than it did at the time. It wasn’t exactly cheered to the rafters then, even by Labour’s own mass of backbenchers, but a year on it has become clear that those early decisions have damaged the country’s economic performance and blighted Reeves’s time in the Treasury.

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