Rachel Reeves has no mandate for taking money from taxpayers to hand to benefits claimants and her self-pitying defences are an insult to the people who are paying for her weakness, writes Alys Denby

Rachel Reeves’ position has been untenable from the start. Her promises, during the election, that she would “end austerity” (increase public spending) without raising taxes on “working people” were either mendacious or incompetent. Both should have been resigning offences.

Now that she has broken a manifesto pledge and misled both her own cabinet colleagues and the public about why, she has lost all credibility. A Prime Minister as powerful as ours ought to be with a 148-seat majority should sack her. Instead he says he is “proud” of........

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