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By Christian May Rachel Reeves once vowed that if Labour won they “would be the most pro-business government this country has ever seen”. With just two days to go until the Budget, that pre-election pledge appears to be in the gutter. Reassuring the business community was an essential part of Labour’s pitch for power, but almost everything they’ve said and done since winning the election has stoked fears that their definition of being pro-business is unorthodox, to put it mildly. From day one, their doom-mongering talk of a dire fiscal inheritance started to sap confidence while their earliest…