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Reeves delivers no quick fix for Wales
Western Mail
|November 27, 2025
AS SWANSEA MP Torsten Bell, a Treasury minister, handed his phone forward to Rachel Reeves, you can only imagine what went through her mind.
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To see your big moment, the big Budget, be published, basically in full on the OBR website a few hours ahead of schedule and before you took your place to announce it must have been galling.
You have to feel for her.
This time, it actually wasn't a Labour mistake, but this was meant to be her big attempt at rectifying all those that have been.
It did seem to take the Chancellor a few moments to recover, but within 10 or so minutes, she was in full flow.
There were lots of words, lots of promises and some very large numbers.
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