AFTER the most shambolic, amateurish and financially punishing Labour government smoke-and-mirrors Budget, isn’t SNP Westminster leader Flynn right to predict (we hope) this was Starmer and Reeves’s last Budget?

For weeks we’ve been subjected to a litany of leaks, clearly an attempt to float ill-prepared policies to gauge public response and acceptability. What competent government working to a carefully considered plan does this?

We got an abolition of the two-child benefit cap, but wasn’t this just a response to the fear of backbencher revolt rather any belief the cap was fundamentally politically unacceptable for pushing children into poverty?

Claiming she wouldn’t breach manifesto commitments by raising income tax, hasn’t Reeves just done this anyway by maintaining the freeze on

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