As Rachel Reeves battles to survive, Labour needs to stop the self-inflicted mistakes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : While the Budget imposed a whopping £26 billion in tax rises and failed to reduce the tax burden on the struggling oil and gas industry, the markets seemed reasonably content, happy that Reeves was sticking to her fiscal rules.
45% : If 'sources close to the Chancellor' had said exactly the same thing as she did in her speech about poor productivity figures - while omitting to mention that tax receipts were better than expected - no one would now be accusing her of being misleading or even lying about the state of the country's finances. To be clear, there was nothing incorrect about what Reeves said.

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