Reeves isn’t ‘underestimated’, she’s doing a bad job and should resign

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 26: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to nurses and members of the media during a visit to University College London Hospital on November 26, 2025 in London, United Kingdom. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting are touring University College London Hospital after the Chancellor delivered the Autumn Budget. £300 million will be invested in tech tools that will help NHS staff improve their productivity, such as through the automation of administrative tasks. (Photo by Adrian Dennis - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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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