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Today, Kearsharma's labour was supposed to be the party of builders. So why is his Chancellor starting with a demolition job?

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Rachel Reeves give her first major parliamentary speech as Chancellor this week,

he got a distinct sense of deja vu.

All incoming governments try and take tough decisions early on in a parliament because that gets them out of the way quickly and they hope that voters will have forgotten by the time the next election rolls around.

So each government comes in and blames the other lot for the tough decisions that they've got to take.

Margaret Thatcher did it after she was elected in 1979.

The charge that we have been responsible for all are even most of the price increases since the election is thus blatantly false.

Gordon Brown did in 1997 when he was Chancellor.

We need to put the public finances, the people's money, in better order.

That's why today I took tough action, action that should have been taken earlier.

George Osbourne was arguably the master of the blame game.

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