For almost an hour on June 11th the House of Commons felt like a bingo hall, or perhaps an auction house. Rachel Reeves reeled off a dizzying list of wildly varying numbers and time horizons, covering programme after programme funded in Britain’s spending review. Over the next five years, £14bn ($19bn) would go to a new nuclear plant. Over a decade, trains in Wales would get £445m. Each year, £280m more would go to border security.