CP
Look, we all admire authenticity. No one’s asking politicians to be robots. But there’s a hard truth we need to stare in the face: you cannot remain Chancellor of a G7 economy and cry through Prime Minister’s Questions.
It’s not just unorthodox. It’s incompatible.
Let’s be blunt, markets don’t price in emotional instability. They react to signals: fiscal discipline, composure under pressure, and confidence, especially when inflation, interest rates, and bond yields hang in delicate balance.
Investors, traders, and global partners don’t know the Chancellor personally. They don’t care if she’s been through a lot. What they see is a televised moment that now risks becoming a defining one… not of empathy, but of fragility.
It’s falling apart.
Rachel from Accounts knows it.
But the tears should be for our economy which she has destroyed.
The only bloke who doesn’t seek to realise he’s finished is Slippery Starmer himself.
God help us Britain, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. pic.twitter.com/ILLTCgEZSP— Dan Wootton (@danwootton) July 2, 2025
Rachel Reeves weeping at PMQs today might have tugged some heartstrings at home, but it sent a very different signal to Frankfurt, Wall Street, and Tokyo. That signal? The UK’s economic ship is being steered by someone who appears overwhelmed, in public, at a scrutinised moment during the political week here in the UK.
And it’s not just about optics. Governance at this level is performance, yes… but also pressure. You can’t cry your way through tough fiscal choices. You can’t regulate the FTSE with emotion. You can’t negotiate with rating agencies or the IMF using sentiment.
I suspect Reeves’s resignation just got a lot closer… if not imminent.
And before the usual brigade accuses us of insensitivity, let’s be clear: this isn’t about stoicism for stoicism’s sake. Stiff upper lip and all that. This is about the job. The stakes. The billions riding on every word she says. Every wobble has a cost.
In politics, as in spaceflight, engineering, or markets… failure isn’t just catastrophic. It’s contagious. When the pilot shows doubt, passengers panic. And right now, Britain cannot afford even the impression of instability at the helm of its economic cockpit.
If Reeves doesn’t understand that, the markets already do.
Tick, tock.
This article (Crying Chancellor : Confidence Is Currency — And It’s Just Been Devalued) was created and published by Conservative Post and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author CP
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Reeves in Tears as Starmer Refuses to Guarantee She Will Stay in Job
WILL JONES
Chancellor Rachel Reeves was visibly in tears during Prime Minister’s Questions today as Sir Keir Starmer refused to guarantee she would remain in role following last night’s welfare reform humiliation. The Telegraph has more.
Sir Keir Starmer failed to repeat a guarantee that Rachel Reeves will remain in her role as Chancellor for the whole of Labour’s first term in power as the Prime Minister remained under huge pressure over his welfare bill climbdown.
Kemi Badenoch took aim at a visibly emotional Ms Reeves during Prime Minister’s Questions and labelled the Chancellor a “human shield” for Sir Keir’s “incompetence”.
The Chancellor could be seen wiping tears from her face during PMQs although the exact reason why was not immediately clear.
Downing Street promised in January this year that Ms Reeves would remain as Chancellor for the duration of the five year parliament.
Mrs Badenoch asked Sir Keir to repeat the commitment.
Gesturing towards Ms Reeves, the Tory leader said: “She looks absolutely miserable. She looks absolutely miserable. Labour MPs are going on the record saying that the Chancellor is toast and the reality is that she is a human shield for his incompetence.
“In January he said that she would be in post until the next election. Will she really?”
Sir Keir said: “She certainly won’t [directed at Mrs Badenoch]. I have to say I am always cheered up when she asks me questions or responds to a statement because she always makes a complete mess of it and shows just how unserious and irrelevant they are.”
Mrs Badenoch then noted that Sir Keir had not guaranteed his Chancellor’s future.
“How awful for the Chancellor that he couldn’t confirm that she will stay in place,” she said.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Rachel Reeves was crying after after an “altercation” with Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, it’s been reported. The Telegraph has the inside track:
Ms Reeves was visibly emotional during PMQs and a spokesperson for the Chancellor said afterwards that she was dealing with a “personal matter”.
But it has now emerged that Ms Reeves had a “row” with Sir Lindsay when she entered the chamber before the session got underway.
The Telegraph understands that Sir Lindsay spoke to Ms Reeves before PMQs about her conduct at Treasury questions in the Commons on Tuesday, where he asked her three times to be more brief in her answers.
On the third time, he interrupted her and she replied: “Oh, alright then.”
The Speaker is understood to have told her that it did not reflect well on either of them to be seen to disagree on the floor of the chamber, and pointed towards a tweet by the political sketchwriter Quentin Letts, who reported the altercation at the time.
After Sir Lindsay raised the issue with Ms Reeves today, she is understood to have begun crying.
Her spokesman said that she was already dealing with a “personal matter” before she attended PMQs.
The Telegraph: continue reading
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