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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Any pride women felt about Rachel Reeves being the first female Chancellor has been flushed down the U-bend of spend, spend, spend
Labour has always had a woman problem and now it has the woman problem to end them all. Quite how Rachel Reeves has risen through their muppet-rich ranks without trace – to be fair, she did lie on her CV – and became Chancellor of the Exchequer is one of the mysteries of the age. Yet here she is, this mistress of mediocrity, wrecking the economy without a care in the world. Armed with only her boxy separates, freshly ironed fringe and a faint grasp of economics, Rachel from Accounts marches ever onwards in her mission to improve life for the 'ordinary working people' in this country. Whomsoever they might be. It is certainly not me. Is it you?


Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Big clubs claim PSR is holding them back - but here's the REAL truth that their incompetent bosses would rather you didn't know, writes OLIVER HOLT
As the Premier League season crawls to an end with what some would like to believe is the grand flourish of a grim battle for fifth place and a spot in a Champions League that has very few champions in it, some among the billionaire boys' club that make up our elite teams are already seeking excuses for their rank mediocrity. Their go-to defence, which they dare not speak too loudly because they know how absurd it makes them look, is that their ambitions are being thwarted by the restrictions placed on them by Profit and Sustainability Rules.