PM Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves react on stage during day two of the Labour Party conference at ACC Liverpool

Rachel Reeves took a swipe at “dangerously wrong” Andy Burnham as she hit back at his criticisms of her economic policies.

The mayor of Manchester, who is making no secret of his ambition to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister, has called on the government to stop being “in hock the bond market”.

That was widely interpreted as a criticism of Reeves’ fiscal rules, which aim to limit public spending to stop government debt spiralling out of control.

A poll published today by the More in Common think-tank found that the public would prefer Burnham to Starmer as PM.

But in her speech to the Labour Party conference on Monday, the chancellor took a thinly-veiled swipe at Burnham.

She said: “There are........

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