Rachel Reeves, please, let’s make budgets boring again | Heather Stewart

Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year's long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup

Rachel Reeves should put us all out of our misery this Wednesday with a tax-and-spend statement bold enough to make future budgets boring again.

Ask any economist or policy wonk and they'll tell you the buildup to this year's budget has been among the most drawn-out and chaotic they can remember.