Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

I have known her for years - not as a friend, even by the MN definition of "friend". Or possibly, thinking about it, it may well be the MN definition of friend. I despise her and all she stands for. So sorry by no sympathy for her if she is a bit upset - maybe she should think about the genuine fear her and her ilk have engendered in people. She has no sympathy for them.

Highly unprofessional behaviour. She clearly can't handle the pressure and needs to resign.

Wow she looks awful in that video. The bags under her eyes. Looks more like tiredness/exhaustion/stress rather than being upset and she was actively nodding and agreeing with the PM, even smiling, not self-consoling herself.

Click on this link, and tell me she wasn't crying.

The Telegraph - Telegraph Online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph

100% this!!

Well, Downing Street has said that RR has Starmer's "full backing" and is "going nowhere".

This usually means a resignation within 48 hours.

I don’t feel sorry for her. She’s beyond arrogant. Hopefully this will speed up her exit.

Only 4% of the government spending is on disability benefits maybe focus on what the other 96% is being spent on

I agree with you, 14 years of appalling Tory leadership and in trying to sort some of it out there’s huge criticism. The welfare bill has to come down, it’s completely unsustainable. Under the Tories it has ballooned into an out of control entity. Winter fuel allowance was a total cock up but it should not be a universal benefit. Inheritance tax on farms is right, everyone else has to pay it if they’re eligible for it. The Tories did nothing to reduce channel crossings and Labour are expected to sort that out in 12 months?

People in this country have to accept that there isn’t enough money yet it seems that people feel more and more entitled to more and more!

I think that Reform are now a definite for the next GE and then we’ll really see just how awful things can get.

‘Going nowhere’ and ‘personal issue’

Ridiculous. She looks spent.

She looks like she has been crying a lot beforehand but maybe someone has died or very ill or something like that, she probably couldn't miss PMQs though.

It's being reported that she was crying because Starmer refused to confirm she would continue in her role. That would present a picture of her as an utterly despicable, self-centred individual who places her own interests above those of the country. I sincerely hope her tears are for a different reason.

We can live in hope!

PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER REEVES.

FUCKING SHOWER OF A GOVERNMENT.

Have you followed how well Reform councillors are doing round the country? Are there any left who haven't had ro resign yet?

Did anyone see starmer nearly fall over coming out of No 10 🤣🤣🤣

I guess the penny has finally dropped with her that she is fucking useless.

Took a while.

Where was Kendall today ? Maybe she was on the front bench, I didn't see her though.

Exactly this. I feel very sorry for her. She's tried her best to come up with sensible economic policies to take our country forward and the militant backbenchers are blocking it every which way. I think they are a disgrace bowing down to those who shout the loudest. Our country cannot afford the ridiculous benefits bill, we all know it but nobody has the backbone to actually see it through. She's probably distressed because now they will have to go after the squeezed middle (yet again) and ask them to pay more. The average person in this country who is a net contributer are on their knees! It's enough to make anyone cry.

I was living in a mouldy room in my mother in law's house trying to buy a 2 bed flat in London. We had to save 20k a year over 3 years to buy. I was 26 years old and on 25k in 2019, hubby was on 46k. Didn't have a car scrimped and saver every cent. Even when I was on 18k and dh on 30k we were saving 1700 a month.

When our salaries increased, we didn't save it but made around 30k in overpayments over 2 years so close to 15k per annum. We also made some savings around 10k a year. We weren't rich think our combined income was around 90k to 120k around that time.

Now i am on mat leave and we are due for 2k childcare fees we wouldn't be making such savings probably.

yep - hopefully she'll be gone by tomorrow. Around 6 months too late sadly.

It is highly unprofessional and unthinkable in her position. She is not working in a crèche. She is supposed to be leading the country.

If I cried in my line of work I would never work again, and nor would I expect to, given what is at stake to others. If you are feeling so fragile you can’t contain yourself, then a day off would have been best. If the papers read into it, fine, everyone has an off day sometimes, but at least she would not have publicly and globally humiliated herself.

I hope we now don’t see the markets taking fright…honestly it’s just a fiasco from start to finish.

No sympathy from me. Her conduct has caused tears in thousands of British households, generating genuine terror in poor and disabled people.
She relished it, she doubled down after the outcry. Maybe her conscience has caught up with her?

His confidence is shot to pieces - that's been clear for a few weeks.

Lie after lie after lie.....