The silence of Rachel Reeves since it became clear Keir Starmer was finished has been deafening.
Yet, on cue, the former Chancellor is out there on social media during an August scorcher to claim ownership of the ‘stability, investment and reform’ to an economy which delivered a lift of 0.4 per cent in the second quarter.
The UK is on track to be alongside the United States as the fastest-growing G7 nation in 2026.
The reality is that the leap forward comes despite Reeves’ stewardship, which saw consumers and businesses weighed down by £75billion of new taxes and Angela Rayner’s destructive employment reforms.
The UK continues to outperform European peers without the Reeves remedy of cosying up to Brussels.
