UK chancellor of the exchequer RacHel Reeves delivers her budget in the House of Commons. Photograph House of Commons/PA
“She has probably just about got away with it,” was the immediate reaction of one seasoned Westminster journalist to Rachel Reeves’s second straight tax-and-spend budget, as media left the House of Commons to discuss the details with her advisers.
Wednesday’s well-flagged UK budget contained no real shocks, no landmines for the politically-exposed Reeves. So she may well have got away with it, for now.
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