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Morning Call: The problem with Reeves' rules

Exclusive polling shows almost no one knows what the Chancellor's policy is.

May 16, 2025
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Good morning, Will here.

In May 2001 the Conservative MP Oliver Letwin let slip, on a phone call to a journalist from the Financial Times, that his party had a long-term plan to cut public spending by £20bn a year. The idea – which his party furiously denied – was so controversial that Letwin was said to have gone into hiding. Labour produced a “wan…

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