Why Labour’s Budget Politics Makes Reeves Miserable
When the fight becomes this personal, stop saying everything is fine.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were all smiles yesterday at an NHS event.
Photographer: JACK HILL/AFPThe tears that fell from UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ eyes during Prime Ministers Questions in the House of Commons Wednesday were so unexpected it was hard to trust one’s own.
We’ve all been emotional at inconvenient moments, perhaps even cried at work or in public. But when the teardrops are those of the finance minister of the world’s sixth-largest economy, whose visible distress can move markets, it’s more than a “tough day,” as she described it yesterday. Reeves and her boss, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, must now get a grip on both their personal relations and the politics of leading their year-old government.