‘A private jet to, say, California?’: Rachel Reeves’s best budget day jokes

Talking about plans to boost workers’ rights, Reeves referred to Badenoch’s reputation for taking a forceful approach in the office. Photograph: UK parliament/AFP/Getty Images

Neither discussions of “fiscal rules” nor Rachel Reeves are usually associated with public displays of humour, but a minor budget tradition is that the chancellor peppers their speech with jokes, and Reeves made a decent go of it. Here were her main gags.

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