[joeysteele]

It's really not good enough.
This inadvertent statement doesn't and wouldn't wash for Paul or Paula Smith's in the Country on issues like this.

It's not a great amount but she's the Chancellor of the Exchequer for goodness' sake.
She's going to be making the rules of what people may have to pay extra across the board.

I don't know why he's holding on to her myself, things couldn't at present look much worse for him and Labour.
Plus a lot of the government's woes are from the decisions of Ms Reeves.
Yes, he signs them off but no PM usually overrules their Chancellors.

He still has time and three and a half years+ to turn things around and who knows what he has up his sleeve possibly too.
If I was him, I'd risk the loss of this Chancellor, take the hit for that and put in place someone who will change the direction of economic policy more positively.

Johnson lost his first Chancellor after the 2019 election, then appointed Sunak.
Which worked pretty well between and for them until the aftermath of COVID.

It's hardly the crime of the century that Ms Reeves has failed to ensure ALL was right and in place on this issue.
However she is the Chancellor, it should be expected that what she does is at least in the main right.