Can Reeves Survive a Second Tax-Raising Budget?: Martin Ivens

In politics as in life, it’s often both consoling and useful to find someone more unpopular than yourself. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s favorability ratings may have hit historic lows in the opinion polls, reaching -54 on the latest YouGov measure, but that’s still better than the -57 his Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has sunk to. T he hot political topic of the moment is whether the chancellor can survive — and will Starmer keep his job without her?

Reeves is now trusted on the economy by just 14% of voters. “I’m sick of people mansplaining how to be chancellor ...