{"id":75387,"date":"2024-05-08T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75387"},"modified":"2024-05-08T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:32:27","slug":"since-reeves-and-the-tories-have-a-shared-economic-dna-how-different-can-she-ever-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/05\/08\/since-reeves-and-the-tories-have-a-shared-economic-dna-how-different-can-she-ever-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Since Reeves and the Tories have a shared economic DNA, how different can she ever be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FT has an article this morning, of which the headlines are as follows:<\/p>\n

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Are Labour and the Conservatives adopting \u2018Heevesian\u2019 economics?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The policies of the chancellor and his opposite number are looking increasingly alike<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As the article notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rachel Reeves, Britain\u2019s shadow chancellor, on Tuesday declared to a City audience that \u201cstability is change\u201d, vowing that Labour would break from the \u201cchaos\u201d of recent Conservative economic policymaking.<\/p>\n

But while Reeves\u2019s reference point is Liz Truss\u2019s self-destructing, unfunded \u201cmini\u201d Budget in 2022, economists note that some of the \u201cstability\u201d she is offering comes from a growing alignment of Labour and Tory policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How long did it tale for them to notice is the most obvious question to ask?<\/p>\n

If Reeves agrees with Hunt about this long lost of policy issues, how likely is it that they might differ on anything significantly:<\/p>\n