Reeves’ Tears at PMQs
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, Rachel Reeves was visibly upset at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Her team say it was a personal matter, and there are also reports of an argument with the speaker. Adam and Chris look at what’s been going on amidst mounting criticism of the chancellor’s handling of the welfare cuts.
Plus, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking his ex partner Cassie Ventura and another woman. The US rapper was found guilty of two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution relating to both women.
Crowds gathered outside the courthouse in New York to hear the verdict. Adam is joined by the host of the Diddy on Trial podcast, Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty who’s been following the trial.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's quite a tricky one today because the big story is still what's going on in politics, |
| 0:10.7 | but a lot of what's going on is visual. |
| 0:14.5 | So just before Prime Minister's questions, as usual, the cameras were trained on the door of Downing Street. |
| 0:20.1 | The Prime Minister came out, |
| 0:21.5 | somebody shouted something along the lines of have you lost control, and he tripped up. And everyone |
| 0:25.5 | went, ha, ha, ha, ha, that'll be a great opening shot for Chris Mason's piece on the six-clock |
| 0:29.9 | news about the troubles the government has. Then it got a lot more complicated because |
| 0:34.3 | at Prime Minister's questions, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, was sat next to him, and it looked like she'd been crying. |
| 0:40.7 | And then it looked like she was crying. |
| 0:43.7 | And then we all had a bit of a dilemma as political journalists about, well, how far do you go with speculating about a person's behavior? |
| 0:54.4 | Her team let it be known that it was a personal issue that was moving her, |
| 0:59.5 | but at the same time, that image has become a massive symbol for the difficulties the government is undoubtedly in. |
| 1:06.6 | So listen to this episode of Newscast as me and Chris try to unpack all this. |
| 1:11.6 | Newscast. |
| 1:12.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:13.9 | He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 1:16.9 | Did I say that? |
| 1:18.3 | I can't believe I said that. |
| 1:19.8 | Next question. |
| 1:20.6 | This is R for the benefit of Earth. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fam. |
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