26-11-2025 19:23 via theguardian.com

Budget leak was the only leak Reeves wasn’t responsible for in this shambles

The chancellor tried a different approach to this budget, revealing her plans and causing chaos before she delivered itJust maybe Rachel Reeves had a cunning plan all along. Most budgets have a tendency to be moderately well received on the day, only to fall apart when the economist wonks have had a chance to go through the small print 24 hours later. Rachel has tried a rather different approach. The budget of dialectics. Her mission has been to get her budget to fall apart in the weeks and mont
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