Spring Statement: Labour are now becoming a recruiting agency for Reform

All these issues, as Laura Kuenssberg put it to Reeves deftly on Sunday, were “visible from space”. Yet nowhere in Labour’s election manifesto was a 1.2 percentage point rise in employers’ National Insurance contributions, cuts to pensioners’ winter fuel payments, halving the international aid budget, axing £4.8bn of disability benefits and eye-watering cuts of up to 11 per cent from some unprotected departments.