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A former Chancellor of the Exchequer shared what he believes caused Rachel Reeves to tear up in the Commons last week.
Rachel Reeves, the British chancellor of the exchequer, made headlines last week when images of her crying in the UK parliament while seated behind Keir Starmer were beamed around the world. Friends ...
Whether the chancellor’s emotional reaction at PMQs was personal or political, it underlines a perception of chaos in the ...
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For a distinctly unremarkable man Keir Starmer has had quite a remarkable week. First, he managed to pull off that never-seen-before trick of achieving a humiliating victory in Parliament on Tuesday.
After a week in which the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was split over welfare reforms, and a new party was formed by ...
A reader says Rachel Reeves’ tears would be understandable if they were about Labour rebels wrecking her work to reform the benefits system ...
Testing Leadership
In a moment that briefly pierced the steely façade of British parliamentary politics, Chancellor Rachel Reeves was seen ...
The images, video and questions will follow her for the rest of her life. That tear that trickled down the side of her face, the puffy eyes, her hunched back, the tongue rolling around her mouth, the ...
The reasons for Reeves’s distress remain shrouded in mystery: she looked strained but smiled gamely and admitted that she ...
Of course I am aware that Rachel Reeves is no ordinary woman and this is no ordinary workplace – but the reaction was wildly ...