The pressure on Rachel Reeves that has been “building all year” culminated yesterday in her much-anticipated autumn Budget, said Ailbhe Rea in The New Statesman. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. This “timid” Budget risks falling into “the regular trap of indecision: half-measures that please no one”. It was billed as the “smorgasbord” Budget, and it will “certainly” bring Britain closer to “Scandinavian levels of taxation”, said the Financial Times. This may well be Reeves’ “last Budget as chancellor” but “if all else fails, there should be an opening in the OBR’s IT department”.
