Rachel Reeves claims yet another victim - how does she sleep at night?

Do politicians similar Rachel Reeves person a conscience? (Image: Getty)

Once again, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has her fingers each implicit this one. An atrocious batch of businesses are going to illness connected her watch. Does she adjacent care?

This morning, 1 of Britain’s oldest section stores announced it volition adjacent its doors arsenic a nonstop effect of her autumn Budget.

Beales, which opened successful Bournemouth successful 1881, shutters its remaining store successful Poole’s Dolphin Centre astatine the extremity of May.

Chief enforcement Tony Brown pinned the closure connected the Labour Chancellor’s disastrous autumn Budget.

He said Beales conscionable couldn't past the surge successful unit costs caused by Reeves's hike to employer's nationalist insurance, coupled with an inflation-busting summation successful the minimum wage.

Both travel into unit successful April. Beales did its sums, and realised its days were numbered. “This, coupled with the risks and uncertainty of further taxation increases successful the coming years, person near america nary different option," Mr Brown said.

Brown is readying an orderly exit to guarantee cipher suffers a fiscal loss. If lone Reeves person been truthful diligent.

All crossed the country, businesses are doing their best, conscionable similar Beales. But it isn't enough.

Beales is conscionable the latest successful an endless drawstring of store closures. Not each of which tin beryllium pinned connected Labour of course.

The emergence of online shopping, the pandemic and cost-of-living situation each played a part.

But the Budget was a slayer blow.

In the contiguous aftermath, Deutsche Bank claimed it would destruct 100,000 jobs. It was wrong. And estimated 300,000 volition spell oin the retail assemblage alone. The Budget is turning into a bloodbath.

Imagine being liable for that? I couldn't unrecorded with myself.

Power does that to you. Politicians wreck lives and simply determination on.

If I were erstwhile Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown, I’d inactive beryllium kicking myself for wrecking the nation's gold-plated pensions and flogging our golden reserves for pennies.

Yet helium hulks astir looking afloat of himself.

If I were erstwhile Tory Chancellor George Osborne, I'd beryllium guilt-riddled implicit however my austerity measures had strangled growth. Yet Osborne smoothlly flits about, enriching himself astatine each opportunity.

And if I were Liz Truss… no, let’s not spell there.

I precocious listed 20 large errors Reeves has already made. It didn't instrumentality agelong to travel up with them.

Pensioners, farmers, concern owners, savers, taxpayers and workers are each paying the price. Think of each the quality misery that entails successful practice.

Does Reeves deliberation astir them erstwhile her caput hits the pillow? I uncertainty she's fixed Beales a 2nd thought. She's already moved onto her adjacent victim.