Rachel Reeves thinks we’re fighting Hitler – nobody did this since war

We may yet see other 1970s trends on her watch, such as power cuts, blackouts, energy rationing and resurgent trade union militancy. In parts of strike-ridden Birmingham, where rubbish has gone uncollected for months, we’re already there. Rachel Reeves isn’t the only Labour figure to drag us back to one of the most dismal periods in our recent history. Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner have done their bit. But Reeves’s damage extends further than the era of Abba and Slade. She’s now hauling us all the way back to the 1940s. That war-torn decade was, of course, far tougher than…