Apologies for mangling Jane Austen’s famous line but it seems appropriate. Rachel Reeves inherited a mess from the Tories but she’s only made it worse and yes, Pride and Prejudice does come into it.

Pride, because Reeves deluded herself into thinking she knew how to run a modern economy when she didn’t.

Prejudice, because last year’s Budget was an ideologically motivated attack on business that has horribly backfired.

Labour is taking money from the public sector – via £40billion worth of…