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Middle-class families are having to make huge life decisions based on fear, not fact. Our personal finance crusader JEFF PRESTRIDGE says it's cruel, wrong, immoral. And, worst of all, I think Reeves is enjoying it

Every day the headlines bring back recurring nightmares of 49 years ago, when Denis Healey, the Labour Chancellor, went cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund begging for a bailout.