Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already started laying the groundwork for who she will blame for the parlous state of Britain’s economy as she prepares a tax-raising Budget on Wednesday.

Austerity under the last Tory government has come up, as has the Brexit deal , former prime minister Liz Truss’s mini-Budget and a world economy upset by Donald Trump’s tariffs.

But according to many leading economists, it is Reeves herself who is to blame for her own Budget woes because she did not do enough to protect herself from the impact of any of these. New Feature

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Reeves has pointed the finger at decisions made by the previous Conservative government, in particular the policy of austerity and the vote to leave the EU, claiming that they have

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