Free thinking. Straight talking. Explore more opinion from the nation’s leading comment writers. | | Rachel Reeves discussed the Budget on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg |  | Dominic Penna Senior Political Correspondent | A little under 18 months ago, Sir Keir Starmer stood outside No 10 Downing Street and promised a different kind of politics that would “tread more lightly” on the lives of the British public.
That promise feels a world away amid a fresh scandal involving Rachel Reeves, and whether the Chancellor deliberately misled the public.
Ms Reeves and her officials falsely represented the scale of the fiscal shortfall before raising taxes by £30bn last Wednesday, which enabled them to increase spending on benefits.
Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, is calling on Ms Reeves to go, while Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has referred her to the Prime Minister’s ethics adviser – who is considering whether to launch an investigation.
There is unhappiness from within Labour, too, and last night it was reported that ministers including a member of the Cabinet also felt they had been misled over the state of the public finances.
With Sir Keir’s speech on economic growth this morning set to be overshadowed by questions about the row, this Government is a long way away from treading lightly on the nation’s lives. While a defiant Ms Reeves insists she can tough it out, questions persist about how long she can last.
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For today’s caption contest, we have this lovely tortoise to caption. It’s up to you which one of them is speaking! Submit a caption to be in with a chance of winning a large amount of satisfaction. I’m excited to hear your thoughts.
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You all did very well this week coming up with an extra piece of text to add to this Starmeresque snowman. Andy Shuttleworth’s submission pipped it in the end, and I don’t want to over-explain why...
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“The naming of cats is a difficult matter,” wrote TS Eliot. But what about dogs? As a cat owner, I always assumed that this process was less complicated. After all, dogs are the more forgiving species. Get it wrong – saddle them with something a tad undignified, or unoriginal – and they won’t necessarily see it as yet more evidence that you’re a lumbering oaf. No, they’ll be grateful to their benevolent, all-knowing master for giving them a name at all.
How wrong I was. As Sophia Money-Coutts explains, choosing the right name for your faithful hound is equally fraught with questions. Do you want a touch of levity, or a little gravitas? Something plain or something posh?
Human names, of course, are increasingly popular (Bella, Luna, Teddy and Milo came top last year) though the trend isn’t entirely new: Harold Wilson, for instance, had a dog called Paddy. And readers have been recalling the confusion that can arise.
Judith Thompson wrote: “When I was a girl in the 1940s, living in a village near Nottingham, a lot of Scottie dogs were called Judy. I often found myself turning round when they were called.”
Jasper Reid added: “At my christening, my grandmother asked my parents to justify their name choice. Unimpressed with their answer, she protested: ‘Only dogs are called Jasper.’ Based on a lifetime of walks in Hyde Park, I am afraid she was correct. ‘Jasper, Jasper, come back!’ is something I have heard rather often.”
Janet Haines, meanwhile, was reminded “of something the mother of a Benjamin told me: there was a time when, if ‘Ben’ was ever shouted in a park, one could collect six small boys and an equal number of dogs”. Human names for pets: what’s your view? Send your replies here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here.
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