If this carries on it'll be tears for all of us!

OW! A picture might well paint a thousand words, but this one cost the nation's economy around £3billion as last week the markets appeared as comprehensively spooked as they were in the days of Liz Truss.

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On a human level, it’s impossible not to have some sympathy for Chancellor Rachel Reeves as tears trickled down her face during Prime Minister’s Questions.

It was desperate, not just for her, but for the thousands watching live and the millions who have subsequently seen it on endless news bulletins.

And yet her tears also served as a fitting illustration as to how most of us feel as we mark the first year in power for this Labour government.

After the calamitous collapse of the previous administration, even many prominent Conservative cheerleaders found it nigh on impossible to support the party.

The broad consensus was the nation needed a complete change of tack.

Little did we realise the ship we were climbing aboard was heading for the rocks.

The list of almost exclusively unforced errors seems endless.