How Reeves has mapped out the agenda for Burnham’s government

On Brexit, devolution and investment, the former chancellor is eerily in tune with the man who sacked her

• Reeves says UK’s future is in the EU

Which senior politician has argued that “Brexit did deep damage” and that the government seeks “not to turn back the clock but to look toward a new and stable, future relationship?”

It is not Andy Burnham, who has been the torchbearer for thinking the unthinkable on Brexit since he became prime minister. Instead, they are the words of Rachel Reeves, the former chancellor, in a lecture six months ago.