Alistair Darling warned Rachel Reeves not to fall into “Tory traps” as Labour prepares for the next election, the shadow chancellor has said, as she revealed how he helped shape the party’s current policies before he died.
Reeves said she was in regular contact with the former chancellor before his death, which was announced on Thursday by his family. She said the former chancellor had been a mentor to her, both when she was a new MP and later when she began to shadow his former brief.
