Voices: A strong performance, chancellor – but you can’t afford another Budget like this

Rachel Reeves played a very difficult hand as well as anyone could, in the circumstances.

The title of her first Budget – “Fixing the foundations to deliver change” – was a bit clunky, and even raised the eyebrows of some Labour advisers when they first saw it. “Fixing the foundations to rebuild Britain” would have been better, but someone had clearly insisted on the “change” Labour promised at the election.