Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer were thick as thieves during the election, working together to win power by misleading voters about their real intentions once they got there. The PM hasn’t just betrayed the public, now he’s hung his Chancellor out to dry too. Starmer has already forced Reeves into three humiliating U-turns over the winter fuel payment , welfare cuts and plans to hike income tax in this Budget .

Spineless Starmer caves the moment a few backbenchers get grumpy. Reeves has made plenty of mistakes, but she’s the only senior figure in Labour who grasps the basic idea that a country has to balance the books . Most of her colleagues would torch billions on their pet projects, funding it all by taxing the economy into the ground. And that's what's going to happen tomorrow.

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