In preparation for the Budget yesterday evening, the Treasury portrait of Nigel Lawson, one of the great chancellors of modern history, was replaced with a portrait of Ellen Wilkinson, a founding member of the UK Communist Party. Ellen Wilkinson, who Chancellor Rachel Reeves described as one of her leading lights, was paid £500 by the Soviet Union to travel to Moscow in 1921 to visit the Red Trade Union Conference. Guido Fawkes has kindly revealed all this information. Indeed, Wilkinson had an active relationship with Soviet spy Otto Katz from the 1930s, Stalin’s main man in Europe, who was re…