Rachel Reeves was visibly upset during PMQs - but why?
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Why did the Chancellor cry at Prime Minister's Questions? This appears to be what happened, according to witnesses who have spoken to me. Yesterday in Treasury questions in the Chamber, Mr Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, asked Rachel Reeves to hurry along with her answers in the Commons.
When Sir Lindsay saw Ms Reeves again this morning, he raised the issue again and explained he was trying to get to frontbencher questions. At this point Ms Reeves "burst into tears", according to witnesses, adding: "She is under pressure."
When Sir Lindsay asked what was the matter with Ms Reeves, a second Cabinet minister said that "something had gone on before" in a conversation between Ms Reeves and a senior figure in the Government moments before.
The question now is - what did the Government figure say to the Chancellor which prompted her very public tears?
The question now is - which Government figure had the row with the Chancellor? And what were they rowing about? A HM Treasury spokesman declined to comment on Ms Reeves' conversations with the Speaker today, or whether she had a row before she spoke with him.
The spokesman said: "It’s a personal matter, which - as you would expect - we are not going to get into. The Chancellor will be working out of Downing Street this afternoon.”
Although Sir Keir Starmer declined to say in the Commons that Ms Reeves will remain in post until January, Number 10 said after PMQs: “The Chancellor is going nowhere; she has got the Prime Minister’s full backing.”
A spokesman for the Speaker's office declined to comment.
