Rachel Reeves. What a revelation is power. Since her appointment, the new Chancellor in the full flush of office has developed a quality few of us had suspected – and she achieved, in her first departmental questions, a result none of us anticipated. She made us remember, and with fondness, the last Labour Chancellor – the lightness of touch of Gordon Brown, his gentle ironies, his ecumenical, generosity, his languid demeanour and whimsical manner at the despatch box.
What an hour and a quarter of the new Chancellor it was. Words fail us. They rather failed her, too.
