Rachel Reeves's 'Surprise Speech' Was a Message to the City, Not the Public

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Rachel Reeves delivered a rather
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unsurprising surprise speech and that's
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because it was rather a greatest hits of
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all of her favorite things to say that
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she's been saying in the budget speech
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last year that she was saying in her
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May's lecture even before the election
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took place. We heard ironclad on the
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fiscal rules. We heard protecting the
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NHS. We heard fixing the foundations.
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We're all very aware of all of those
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comments. But what was it really all
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about? Well, of course, she cannot
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please the trinity of her party, the
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markets, and the public. But it looks
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like she's gone for trying to reassure
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the markets at the expense of causing a
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kathuffle within her own party. Which
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means that the political volatility from
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all of this could well break out into
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the open just as the economy enters a
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more fragile period as

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Rachel Reeves's 'Surprise Speech' Was a Message to the City, Not the Public

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