John Healey Is Repeating Rachel Reeves's Mistakes

John Healey is even more dangerous than Rachel Reeves - we will all pay the pric

Rachel Reeves made it more expensive to give someone a job but now her predecessor is on the verge of heaping nearly £3billion in yet more costs onto employers

John Healey is repeating Rachel Reeves's mistakes

With a new prime minister and a blank sheet of paper, John Healey could have started his chancellorship with a burst of announcements. After all, Andy Burnham appears determined to try to do things differently and, even if most of the policies announced so far are very small-scale, at least he is trying. His chancellor, by contrast, has been very quiet. He popped up briefly to replay a few familiar complaints about price gouging by the supermark…