Chancellor’s Fate in the Balance After PMQs – Guido Fawkes

Chancellor’s Fate in the Balance After PMQs

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The scenes in the Commons speak for themselves. Rachel Reeves was crying, Starmer refused to say she would be in place at the next election…

A Downing Street source tells Guido: “She can’t survive this. It’s not tenable for the Iron Chancellor to be in tears on the front bench.” Stark…

A Treasury spokesman said: “It’s a personal matter, which – as you would expect – we are not going to get into. The Chancellor will be working out of Downing Street this afternoon.” If a Chancellor resigns the Treasury handles additional steps – it isn’t like a regular ministerial resignation. Downing Street is insisting that isn’t on the cards. Reeves’ entire fiscal position is shot so a new Chancellor will be a tempting option for Starmer…

Things can move very fast on reshuffles and so on. The consensus will now be that Reeves is a goner, the question is when…