Rachel Reeves was overshadowed by her future selfChancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes a speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Peter Byrne/PA WireThe Chancellor’s speech yesterday was overshadowed by one she hasn’t yet delivered; that’ll be the Budget, on 26 November. There was a lot of rhetoric about Labour’s values and several nods to the fact that the Budget will be tough. We shouldn’t be in the least bit surprised that this was primarily a political speech delivered to a frustrated and fractious Labour party membership. Keir Starmer warns of ‘difficult path’The Chancellor is not a natural orator, a handicap compounded when delivering a speech of such little substance.