The scenes in the Commons speak for themselves. Rachel Reeves was crying, Starmer refused to say she would be in place at the next election…
A Downing Street source tells Guido: “She can’t survive this. It’s not tenable for the Iron Chancellor to be in tears on the front bench.” Stark…
A Treasury 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.” If a Chancellor resigns the Treasury handles additional steps – it isn’t like a regular ministerial resignation. Downing Street is insisting that isn’t on the cards. Reeves’ entire fiscal position is shot so a new Chancellor will be a tempting option for Starmer…
Things can move very fast on reshuffles and so on. The consensus will now be that Reeves is a goner, the question is when…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”