Public sector wages frozen, worker rights bill scrapped and benefits bill cut… the Budget Rachel Reeves should deliver

MADAM Deputy Speaker, let me start off by apologising for my last Budget, which slammed the brakes on the economy, closed hundreds of pubs, sent food prices sky-high and put a million school leavers on the jobs scrapheap. Voters laughed when I pretended to be a Bank of England economist and promised to grow the…