#budget-policy

#budget-policy

When Keir Starmer was mounting the case for the prosecution against Boris Johnson for his Partygate antics, it took almost two months and a police investigation for him to formally call for the prime minister to resign. He was of the view there was no point calling for things until they were likely to happen. This is not the philosophy of the current leader of the opposition.

As she stood at the dispatch box, Reeves opens by saying it was deeply disappointing and a serious error on their part, meaning the OBR. We are rebuilding our economy, she says, pointing to trade deals with the US, India and the EU, planning reforms, an overhaul of the visa system and a change of fiscal rules to raise public investment to a four-decade high.