Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Agreed. And therein lies the problem. It’s continuity Osborne/Hunt economics.
The market always tries to beat up Labour governments, and yet Labour chancellor’s consistently seem to believe that the answer is to shift further to the right in the hope that the sacrifice appeases the market.
Reeves could have set a budget that taxed wealth, protected the poor and then appealed to supportive public inquiry needs facing down the markets.
As it is, they’ve kept the child benefit cap, cuts the winter fuel allowance, denied the WASPI women, taxed employment rather than the super rich and still ended up here
