to believe Rachel Reeves was crying because

They didn’t have a mandate to cut the income from the most vulnerable in society.

This, unfortunately. Working in the banking industry, her emotions were not a good sign. One thing they want to see no matter how choppy or absolutely terrifying the conditions are, is a stern face committed to getting the job done. Once you show emotion, youre not in control and if you're not in control then you could become unpredictable - right or wrongly, thats just how they see everything in that industry. This went down like a tonne of bricks.

I really feel sorry for her but then its not a job she had no idea about and thought will give it a shot, its a very public job that you work day and night doing and she should have known its not a job for everyone, its a tiring all consuming draining role where so much is out fo your hands and whats in your hands must be moved delicately or could make things a lot worse, spinning plates in a hurricane comes to mind.

She may have personal/separate issues but to me she looks absolutely broken and to see a woman in that state, for me, is always sad to see.

FWIW, Starmer trying to cut welfare was absolutely the right thing to do, even if he was weak willed and didn’t take the cuts far enough.

What is a disaster is that he caved in. And he is using Reeves as the fall guy. Unfortunately, he has a snake beside him in Rayner, who will bring him down in no time. He should have got rid of her when he had the chance and purged the party of the other loons and fruitcakes.

That was the right response, politics aside and sympathy for a person that looked broken.
I'm no fan of her policies by any means but a bit of empathy for another person doesn't go amiss.

I thought the same when Obama was in office. Hes a very fit and healthy man, but he looked like he aged decades while he was president.

It really was difficult to watch. There have been a couple of occasions when I’ve been under enormous personal stress and been exhausted when I remember being in work calls, or simply in a shop, and tears just came. I had no control, when 10 minutes before I wax ok for the situation I was heading into. I suspect that what happened took RR by surprise or surely she would not have put herself in that position. I feel enormous sympathy for her as a fellow human, though I don’t agree with her policies ( root cause of all this IMO is her and labours manifesto commitment not to raise income tax or NI paid by individuals- hands tied from the off)

Maybe they missed all the threads earlier about other politicians.

She'll be gone after the Autumn statement I expect. He'll want to wait until he has blamed her for more than just this before he gets rid of her, just to get maximum mileage out of the opportunity. It's brutal but if she can't take the heat (and I certainly wouldn't want to), she shouldn't have taken the job on.

What an awful career politics is , fortunately some people do want/ agree to be politicians , because at the end of the day we need them to run the country. They need more respect whether we agree with them or not especially this labour government who have their work cut out and while they might make mistakes I think they are doing their best.

Celebrating Labour aside for whatever reason I don’t see how you got to this.

It was all over the news

Of course he wouldn’t say if she’d keep her job until next year, cabinet changes happen a lot and if he said Yes then a few months she’s off to a new post he’s be accusers of lying.

She clearly hasn’t slept for a few days

Who do you think should pay for that ‘stability’.

Stability doesn’t come from free. It needs people to contribute financially. Unfortunately less than half the people in this country are actually net contributors and number who don’t contribute a penny is increasing at an alarming rate.

Is the world of politics brand new to you?

Then you have come to the right place, my friend.

We both want Labour out - because they are not the paragons of economic stability you would like for your children, or mine.

And no, I do not wish for anarchy.

It’s threads like this that reaffirm my view that most people are selfish unfeeling twats and will readily stick a knife in given the opportunity.

A) teachers are technically middle class

B) no one made more noise about rachel reeves being the first female chancellor than rachel reeves herself

A prison of her own making

I don't disagree with this, actually, she should have left the chamber when she realised she was going to lose it. But I do think it's valid to question why it's so much worse for a woman to lose it by crying than it is for a man to lose his temper or treat the house with contempt.

Whilst the ‘victims’ of her polices to date, can do one.

Was what he failed to add.

Sounds like you want anarchy. I just want stability for my children.

Surely a teacher is a profession? Her parents likely went to University to qualify as teachers. Yes she’s under pressure but I don’t think coming from a working class background is part of it.

That’s one way to speed up the process.

Vicious and thick is well put.

There was real fear in her eyes, she wasn't just upset. I suspect she's out of her depth and can't take the pressure. She'll be gone by the end of July.

And the damage she and her party have created will just get worse.

My post answers your question.

I liked what Stephen Flynn, the SNP's Westminster leader, said:

"Like almost all MPs I don't know why the Chancellor was upset in the chamber today, but I do hope she is okay and back to her duties this afternoon. "Seeing another person in distress is always very difficult, and we are wishing her well."