How long will Rachel Reeves last in office?

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The Observer editorial says Labour cannot deliver without changing its fiscal rules:

In the paper, Bill Keegan joins the theme:

Reeves can ignore blogs like this one saying that she is getting her economics wrong. It's harder when the Sunday paper of Labour choice joins in the chorus of those saying she is getting her whole approach wrong.

But will she listen? Or  does she, like the dogmatists who have preceded her in post, believe she knows better than everyone because she's delivering what was taught on her Oxford PPE?

My suspicion is she will not be for changing.

I also suspect she will not be Chancellor for more than two years as a result. Starmer will be panicking by then as everything falls apart around him, and her time will be up.


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