Reeves' tears are the brutal side of politics |
Rachel Reeves sat crying behind Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs over what the Treasury claimed was a "personal matter". Whatever your thoughts on the chancellor's performance, it was hard to watch.
Kemi Badenoch attacked her for looking "absolutely miserable" and the Tory leader's spokesman told journalists that Ms Reeves should clarify what has happened.
Downing Street insisted Ms Reeves will keep her job until the general election. But the episode did little to quell speculation about the chancellor's future after a series of damaging U-turns. The public will have little sympathy with a chancellor whose main policies have included moves to strip pensioners of winter fuel payments and the disabled of their benefits.
But whatever has happened, watching the clearly devastated chancellor choke back tears while the PM ploughed through the session showed politics at its most brutal.
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| Written by Archie Mitchell |
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