A spokesman for the prime minister has insisted Rachel Reeves has his full backing, after the chancellor was seen crying during Prime Minister’s Questions.
The fallout from last night’s U-turn on welfare continued through the day as Kier Starmer refused to guarantee Reeves’s position during PMQ’s after Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch asked if Reeves will remain in position
The tears though were according to witnesses in the Commons after Reeves had a brief altercation with Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ahead of PMQs
The chancellor was already upset by a “personal matter” but then Hoyle challenged her over her failure to give way to MPs during Treasury questions y’day.
Meanwhile Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden refused this morning during interviews to speculate on tax rises to plug the black hole. “We will keep to the tax promises that we made in our manifesto,”
