Faisal Islam: Reeves will need her hard hat for the next 12 weeks

It is going to be a long 12 weeks, critical to the chancellor, the government and the nation's economy.Rachel Reeves chose to talk to me at a Birmingham housebuilding development to launch the Budget process as she tried her hand at some bricklaying. However, the obligatory hard hat might come in rather handy away from the site as the chancellor wanted to get across that the point of her Budget would not just be…