The Latest Breaking News from Rachel Reeves

COMMENT: Her filleting of Starmer and Reeves in the Commons is arguably her biggest success since becoming opposition leader. It could silence complaints by her Conservative critics that she lacks the ruthless skills needed to become prime minister, writes Simon Walters.

Home secretary Yvette Cooper said ‘violence and serious criminal damage has no place in legitimate protest’ as she gears up to ban the group

COMMENT: It took the intervention of the deputy prime minister to persuade the prime minister that the game was up – now some Labour MPs are wondering if she’ll replace him, writes John Rentoul

Ian Byrne (Liverpool West Derby), who was with family at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, said a law is needed to restore faith in justice.

COMMENT: The chancellor deserves our sympathy, writes Simon Walters, but resignation may now be inevitable. And her boss’s credibility has also taken a huge hit – the prime minister remains in office but not in power

COMMENT: A single tear rolled down the chancellor’s cheeks at PMQs in a rare and distressing display of emotion from the ‘Iron Chancellor’. I found myself wanting to cry too, says Victoria Richards

With £6.25bn in planned savings now shelved, the government faces awkward choices on how to plug gap

RACHEL Reeves reportedly had an altercation with the Speaker before Prime Minister’s Questions leading her to cry in the chamber.

Keir Starmer has publicly supported chancellor Rachel Reeves after she was crying and appeared visibly distressed in parliament. Reeves' distress followed government U-turns on welfare reforms, which created a deficit in her budget plans. The welfare reform bill passed only after measures intended to generate long-term savings were removed. Some…