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IT has been a rough couple of weeks for Rachel Reeves.

What with her UK Budget getting leaked , oh and then misleading the public and calls to be sacked.

Perhaps she meant to escape from it all during a visit to Scotland – touching down in Greenock today. Now, I will say that the Chancellor did meet with our sister newspaper The Greenock Telegraph.

But, she did duck the rest of the Scottish newspaper press pack – including all the national titles.

“ Rachel Reeves was due to speak to Scottish hacks to boost the budget ahead of Holyrood 's election in May,” Conor Matchett, the Scottish Sun's Political Editor noted on Twitter/X.

“However, she's just cancelled media (apart from a loc

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