And by all accounts, Rachel's incompetent

IT HAS been suggested that women who were delighted that we have our first ever female Chancellor are now up in arms about the pig's ear she's making of it.

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Who are these strange women who ever supported Rachel Reeves? I'm delighted when a female politician makes it on merit, but not when it's merely ticking the diversity box.

No one in their right mind from the word go thought that Reeves would cut it as Chancellor and as tales of accepting freebie clothing, lying on CVs and incompetence emerged it was quite clear she was completely out of her depth.

This is a woman who proclaimed her first priority was growth and then promptly put a tax on jobs.

Inevitably, there are now fewer of them. A five-year-old child could have predicted that.

Nor is she any good at politics.

The removal of the winter fuel allowance was a totally unnecessary and self-inflicted wound and I still completely fail to understand why she did it in the first place.

There's been some guff about taking "tough decisions" to reassure the markets she wasn't a wuss, but a tough decision would have been to face down the junior doctors rather than targeting the vulnerable.