Reeves’s tax-raising budget is crash-landing on an economy that is struggling for growth

The choreography of Rachel Reeves’s statement was wrecked by the OBR publishing details too early. Photograph: UK Parliament

For a Labour voter who nodded off at the moment of the exit poll for last year’s general election, and woke up blinking in Wednesday’s wintry sunshine 16 months later, Rachel Reeves’s budget would have kindled a warm glow.

A mansion tax of sorts, the end of the two-child limit on benefits, more money for the NHS, and jam today for households via cheaper utility bills.