Rachel Reeves has seen things no British chancellor should see (Image: Getty)

Rachel Reeves is leading the UK down the road to economic perdition, and it’s written all over her face. She looks like someone who knows exactly where this ends. If the public knew what she knows, there’d be a lot more haunted faces about.

The Chancellor is a changed woman from the bright, shiny figure strutting about after Labour’s election landslide, fresh from achieving her girlhood dream of becoming the UK’s first female chancellor. Today’s fixed, strained, thousand-yard stare suggests she’s had a grim private reckoning. She knows she’s doomed.