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New shadow chancellor dares to step across the third rail of British politics.
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Ok, so she didn’t use the word Brexit. But when Rachel Reeves made her debut as shadow chancellor in the Queen’s Speech debate, she did something few Labour politicians have dared attempt in the Starmer era: point out the downsides of the way Boris Johnson “got Brexit done”.
Reeves risked the third rail of British politics as she sketched out how the pandemic had exposed structural weaknesses in both the British economy and in Tory policy over the past 11 years.