DAN HODGES: Kemi is in danger of falling into a carefully prepared Labour trap over the Budget – which ends in a snap election

As usual, Kemi Badenoch wasn’t pulling any punches. Speaking to a packed audience of economists and journalists on Monday, she eviscerated Labour’s economic strategy.

There was no clear plan for combating soaring debt. There was no coherent programme for reducing wasteful public spending. There was no desire or urgency to constrain the spiralling welfare bill.

‘I’m worried that next week John Healey will deliver a Budget that does more damage to our country than either of Rachel Reeves’s did,’ she declared.

The Leader of the Opposition is right to be worried. Britain’s leaders are in economic denial. Ever since Keir Starmer tried, and

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