How Reeves sent energy bills, inflation, mortgages, taxes and debt up | Personal Finance | Finance [Video]

Inflation jumps to 2.3% in sharpest increase for two years

Energy bills, consumer price inflation, mortgage rates, government borrowing, public sector spending and our tax bills are going up, up, up. And it will get even worse next April when Budget tax hikes come into force.

At the same time, plenty of things are going down, down, down.

Economic growth, business confidence, retail sales, jobs and the private sector generally. Oh, and the pound.

And Labour’s economic credibility. That’s through the floor. As are the party’s poll ratings.

Some things have vanished altogether, like the Winter Fuel Payment. Along with the prospects of millions of pensioners staying warm this winter.

Whatever Reeves touches goes the wrong way.

She told fibs on her CV to boost her credibility, only to destroy it altogether.

Reeves swanned into power with a head full of half-baked theories from left-wing think tanks and a wardrobe full of power suits that somebody else had paid for.

Like almost everybody else in …