The sheer brass neck of Rachel Reeves never ceases to amaze.
The Chancellor’s speech last night to the City at the Mansion House was another example of her astonishing capacity for self-delusion and what can only be described as dissembling.
Using the first person with her usual tone-deaf arrogance, Reeves boasted about how the choices ‘I have made’ since taking office mean the economy is stronger, the fastest growing in the G7, with interest rates down, investment up, productivity up and wages up.
And that ‘Britain has beaten the odds and beaten the forecasts time and time again’.
Her policies, she had the gall to say, had helped in ‘fixing the foundations, restoring economic stability, and proving our capacity to deliver radical change’.
