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Rachel Reeves now knows what it feels like to be governed by Labour for one year

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Rachel Reeves's tears tell a story (Image: BBC/UNPIXS)

Wow! A picture might well paint a thousand words, but the one above also cost the nation’s economy around ￡3 billion as last week the markets were as comprehensively spooked as they had been in the days of Liz Truss. On a human level, it’s impossible not to have some sympathy for Chancellor Rachel Reeves as tears trickled down her face during a Prime Minister’s Questions that was desperate not just for her, but for the thousands watching live and the millions who have subsequently seen it on endless news bulletins.

And yet her tears also served as a fitting illustration as to how most of us feel as we mark the first year in power for this Labour Government. After the calamitous collapse of the previous administration, even many prominent Conservative cheerleaders found it nigh-on impossible to support the party. The broad consensus was the nation needed a complete change of tack.

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Little did we realise the ship we were climbing aboard was heading for the rocks. The list of almost exclusively unforced errors seems endless and ranges from the relatively minor such as free football and concert tickets, dodgy CVs, free use of apartments and an inability to know where a multi-billion pound river crossing began and ended, to appalling policy mishaps and screeching U-turns that gave the nation a severe case of whiplash more than once.

Indeed, it was another picture that summed that up last week when the Prime Minister stumbled on the steps of Number 10 on his way to PMQs – a mis-step that spoke volumes about his stewardship of the nation.

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If we go back to the morning of his stunning electoral victory, Sir Keir Starmer’s words then ring as hollow as a promise to cut the welfare bill as he said he would lead us into a bright new dawn. Twelve months on then it seems fair to ask: who turned the lights out?

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Add in the vindicative cut in winter fuel payments, the attack on farmers at a time when the industry most needed help, the spectacularly mis-judged Chagos deal, the pledge for growth for an economy which is moving at a glacial pace, the jobs-killing hike in National Insurance and chasing an unprecedented number of millionaires and billionaires out of the country thereby denuding the Treasury of billions in tax receipts, and the picture of incompetence is stark.

The talk in Westminster bars after the latest spectacularly mishandled U-turn was to try and limp through the rest of this month and get to the summer recess – and then return to fight another day.

So be it – but the Government needs to be aware if that fails, it’ll end in tears for all of us.

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