2 July 2025, 17:56 | Updated: 3 July 2025, 09:00

By Andrew Marr

Politics is also theatre. The words they use, their expressions, the way they look…It's not all lines of numbers or policy conferences. It’s human drama.

So yes, it does matter that, just after an absolutely eviscerating defeat over welfare, and after failing to hear robust support from the Prime Minister, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves was seen deeply distressed, in tears, at Prime Minister‘s questions this afternoon.

Her team say it was a personal matter, no business of ours, and it’s also true she’d just........

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