If Keir Starmer was under any illusions that the Budget would reverse the steep decline in his popularity, BBC1′s Question Time on Thursday night quickly disabused him of that notion.

Asked by presenter Fiona Bruce whether Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement would be good for them, only two members of the audience put their hands up .

It was a rather different response from the one provided by Labour MPs just 24 hours before.

They had cheered and waved their House of Commons order papers to show their appreciation of the chancellor’s decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

All the talk of Starmer facing a pre-Christmas leadership challenge seemed to have been put to bed by the chancellor’s actions.

But Reeves also announced that she was continuing the freeze on income ta

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