Reeves will get fired or fall on her sword in the next 12 months. She'll make a balls of the Budget and I don't think she'll still be there at Christmas. They'll have a new chancellor with a three-and-a-half-year run into the next election who can move away from these unsustainable commitments that they won't raise taxes.
Speaking to TalkTV's Plank Of The Week, Mark Wogan said: "It's interesting how you say [Labour chancellor] Rachel Reeves is killing the housing market - she's killed it already. "You'd think someone would come round, even just out of interest. But no one's come to see it. No one, not one single person. That's how dead the market is."
Productivity is a dull word of vital importance. Growing the measure of output for each hour of work is an economic secret sauce, enabling growth in wages and living standards over the long run without stoking inflation.
Rachel Reeves inadvertently breached parliament's rules by failing to declare gifts on time, the standards watchdog has found. She blamed an oversight for her initial failure to declare the gifts, which included tickets to an adaptation of the classic children's novel Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre over Christmas.
UK government borrowing costs surged as speculation over Rachel Reeves's role as chancellor intensified. City investors flagged a multibillion-pound deficit due to Labour's welfare policy reversal.
We have listened to the concerns that people had about the level of the means test, and so we will be making changes to that; they will be in place so that pensioners are paid this coming winter.