Rachel Reeves is beginning to look awfully like Gordon Brown. Study the actions of this government so far and you would hardly say that deregulation was its big idea. True, Keir Starmer did claim at his investment summit last month that he was going to slash red tape. Angela Rayner wants planning laws relaxed to allow new homes on the green belt and Ed Miliband wants wind farms, solar farms and pylons just about everywhere – without the locals being given much of a say.