Keir Starmer was utterly brutal at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, though towards his own Chancellor, rather than the opposition. He refused to say, when invited by Kemi Badenoch, that Rachel Reeves would be in position until the end of the parliament. Behind him, Reeves looked utterly miserable, to the point that Badenoch highlighted it in one of her questions. The Chancellor either had a particularly badly-timed case of hay fever, or was struggling emotionally during the session, with what appeared to be a tear rolling out of her eye when Starmer was only partially defending her.

Reeves was nodding and agreeing with him, but looked devastated at the same time

The focus on Reeves came about because Badenoch naturally attacked Labour on last night’s welfare bill shambles. The Leader of the Opposition was preceded by very loyal Labour backbencher Paul Waugh praising the government’s free school meals policy, and she decided........

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