Labour’s theatre of cruelty

Labour’s theatre of cruelty

Who had the worst time at Prime Minister’s Questions this week? The obvious answer is Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who sat behind Keir Starmer with tears rolling down her face, looking — as Kemi Badenoch pointed out, not exactly sympathetically — “miserable”. Badenoch aside, it would take a truly bitter partisan not to feel some compassion for Reeves as she was forced to carry her grief in the full public glare. Her eyes were puffy, her body was pro