And the scrutiny of your every move – by dissatisfied colleagues, the media and the markets – means you’re not even permitted the privacy to dry your tears. Instead they must dribble to a halt, congealing on your powdered face long enough to ensure everyone gets the shot for the morning’s front pages.
As surely now they must for Chancellor Rachel Reeves, this beleaguered government and the country.
Undeniably there was much for Reeves to cry about. This week saw the almost complete vaporisation of welfare reforms, which were supposed to save £5bn. Last month there was the U-turn on ending the winter fuel allowance, which is set to cost another £1.25bn. Rebels sniffing salty tears will continue to push for the two-child cap on benefits to be lifted; a U-turn on non-dom rules looks likely, too.
Then there are the perma-critics; those who blame her for being a slave to her fiscal rules, a prisoner of her refusal to hike taxes for working people, a lickspittle to business but a traitor to the working classes, a bureaucrat incapable of meeting the British people on an emotional level.
Rachel Reeves did everything she was tasked to do by a party that needed power to bring about the change the nation craved.
She inherited tax cuts from Jeremy Hunt which had the potential to sabotage the next government’s chances of survival.
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And she has stuck to the rules she said she would for fiscal credibility and in a bid to rebuild trust in politics after the charlatans that went before. But meantime everyone started watching Gary Stevenson on TikTok and decided Labour should have gone into the election promising to tax the rich and unleashed a bit of old-fashioned class war.
Even a cab driver asked me the other day: “Where’s The Narrative?”
The only thing that matters now is foresight.
How does Reeves build that bridge? Recently she said: “Contrary to some conventional wisdom, I didn’t come into politics because I care passionately about fiscal rules.”
The election was won a year ago. That fight is done. It’s OK to toss the Ming vase around a little now. After all, for this Chancellor, things really can only get better.
Alison Phillips is a former editor of the ‘Daily Mirror’; she won Columnist of the Year at the 2018 National Press Awards
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