There was blood in the water – but Rachel Reeves swam to safety
The IndependentImagine watching Jaws, hearing the music rev up as the camera surges through the water and waiting for the great white shark to emerge. She stood firm, saying: “We know what happens when governments lose control of the public finances.” Tory Nick Timothy asked her to rule out tax rises in coming months, to which she replied that there would be only one fiscal event a year, prompting speculation she was leaving wiggle room for a spring budget. “While we are quoting Shakespeare, would she agree with me there is something rotten in the state of the Conservative Party?” Labour MPs hooted and Reeves stopped being serious for once and smiled. Meanwhile, there is an exciting update on Day 2 of Sir Keir Starmer’s breathlessly hyped plan to “mainline AI into the veins of this enterprising nation”. Alas, company vice president Lisa Johnson burst the bubble by explaining: “It’s not going to sing today because the wifi is not good enough.” Starmer’s growth plan derailed yet again for lack of decent wifi.
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