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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
John Crace

Digested week: Reeves’s tears and standing room only for Macron’s Westminster speech

Rachel Reeves in tears sitting behind Keir Starmer at PMQs
Hearing your boss refuse to back you during PMQs might make any of us cry. Photograph: House of Commons/PA

Monday

In all of the coverage given to Rachel Reeves’s tears during last week’s prime minister’s questions, one thing got rather overlooked. Crying in the House of Commons is not particularly unusual. It just becomes news when it’s the chancellor who is the one doing the crying. Even the financial markets take an interest: weird how a woman having a normal feeling can cause turmoil, but no one bats an eyelid at male sociopaths.

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