As Richard Murphy put it today
"[Reeves] is very sorry that she thinks that people are going to have to die to pacify the financial markets, but when given the choice between them dying and keeping the markets happy, she chose the markets and threw away the lifebelts required by those in need"
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/09/01/labours-style-of-lifebelt/