If Rachel Reeves had been manifesting a smooth sailing Budget day , then her hopes were quickly dashed an hour before she stood up to deliver her speech at the Despatch Box.

In an unprecedented leak, the Office for Budget Responsibility mistakenly shared the entire contents of the Chancellor’s Budget before she had even had a chance to utter her first word on her vision to the country.

For the opposition benches it gave more ammunition to the suggestion that the run up to the event has been “chaotic”, and even if the error was out of Reeves’s hands it just added to the suggestion that her grip on events is loosening. New Feature

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As it turned out, Reeves set out a Budget that the majority of Labour MPs could get behind, one that s

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