Shadow chancellor is not a natural performer, but the public want doctors and nurses rather than jokes
On days like these, someone as serious as Rachel Reeves comes into her own. You can have too much excitement. Librium Liz and Kamikwasi Kwarteng might find it a blast to indulge their Britannia Unhinged free-market fantasies, but the rest of us could do with a breather.
Some of us have homes to heat, mouths to feed and mortgages to pay. Unlike Tory hedge fund donors, we haven’t all made a fortune by shorting the pound the moment the new crew moved into Downing Street.
