As I Please: Fiscal Discipline and Punish
For all Rachel Reeves’ talk of security, Labour’s economic offering is built on shaky ground.
WAKEFIELD, ENGLAND - APRIL 29: People wait for a bus as Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves takes part in a campaign event for local elections in the city centre on April 29, 2022 in Wakefield, England. Rachel Reeves talks to voters about how the spiralling cost of living and the National Insurance hike is affecting their lives. (Photo by Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)
Rachel Reeves, the self-proclaimed next chancellor of the exchequer, says Labour will fight the next election on the economy. But which economy might that be? The one the Tories have so comprehensively trashed? Or the better one — the ‘fixed’ one — Labour is promising to deliver? A wish list was set out in the shadow chancellor’s […]
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