'When I'm having a tough day, it's on the telly': chancellor addresses tearful PMQs

The chancellor has said she was having a "tough day" yesterday successful her archetypal nationalist comments since appearing tearful astatine Prime Minister's Questions.

Rachel Reeves told broadcasters: "Clearly I was upset yesterday and everyone could spot that. It was a idiosyncratic contented and I'm not going to spell into the details of that.

"My occupation arsenic chancellor astatine 12 o'clock connected a Wednesday is to beryllium astatine PMQs adjacent to the premier minister, supporting the government, and that's what I tried to do.

"I conjecture the happening that possibly is simply a spot antithetic betwixt my occupation and galore of your viewers' is that erstwhile I'm having a pugnacious time it's connected the telly and astir radical don't person to woody with that."

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She declined to springiness a crushed down the tears, saying "it was a idiosyncratic issue" and "it wouldn't beryllium right" to divulge it.

"People saw I was upset, but that was yesterday. Today's a caller time and I'm conscionable cracking connected with the job," she added.

The chancellor's comments travel aft the premier curate told Sky News' political exertion Beth Rigby that helium "didn't appreciate" that she was crying down him astatine Prime Minister's Questions yesterday due to the fact that the play sessions are "pretty wild", which is wherefore helium did not connection her immoderate enactment portion successful the chamber.

He added: "It wasn't conscionable yesterday - nary premier curate ever has had broadside conversations during PMQs. It does hap successful different debates erstwhile there's a spot much time, but successful PMQs, it is bang, bang, bang. That's what it was yesterday.

"And therefore, I was astir apt the past to admit thing other going connected successful the chamber, and that's conscionable a straightforward quality explanation, communal consciousness explanation."

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