Reeves will be Chancellor ‘for a very long time’, PM says after Commons tears - The Prime Minister said it was “absolutely wrong” to suggest the Chancellor’s visibly tearful appearance in the Commons related to the welfare U-turn.

Rachel Reeves had an altercation with Lindsay Hoyle before she cried at prime minister’s questions, it has emerged. The Speaker is said to have spoken to the chancellor as she arrived in the Commons for the weekly PMQs clash.