Early morning surprises can be lovely, but not when they involve Rachel Reeves. Probably the last thing anybody wants to see as they wipe the sand from their eyes is the Chancellor looming over them. The sudden, unexpected appearance of Reeves at cock crow this morning – ‘My office, first thing, sharp!’ – felt like a dawn raid, the age-old military tactic for attacking when the human body is at its weakest. Well, it didn’t work.

The recent wranglings over the exact definition of ‘working people’ wouldn’t fool a four-year-old

We learnt today that despite Reeves having ‘fixed the foundations’ last year (don’t laugh!), ‘the world’ keeps throwing ‘challenges’ her way. The bloody world, eh? Those terrible, unexpected challenges. This is odd, because while I’m not an economics expert, I could’

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