Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves admitted mistakes had been made during the government’s difficult first year when she addressed a private meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) after announcing her spending review. Her audience knew what she meant: her catastrophic decision on the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance.
Reeves was more honest in private than she is in public. Even after their spectacular U-turn, she and Keir Starmer insist last July’s decision was right at the time.
