Downing Street has said that after giving a guarantee to Chancellor Rachel Reeves Sir Kir Stmper, it is “not going anywhere” that she will keep her job on the Prime Minister’s questions.
Raves were upset since the beginning of the session as Kemi Badenoch placed in the latest U -turn of the PM on welfare reform – which potentially flew a hole in Chancellor’s budget plans.
The Tory leader said that the Chancellor would now be forced to impose tax “to pay for” his disability “and asked Sir Keer if Reaves would still be Chancellor in the next election.
The PM refused to grow the future tax and did not answer the question whether Reavs kept his job, saying that Badenocch “will not happen”.
The Tory leader said: “How terrible it is for the Chancellor that he cannot confirm that he will stay in the place.”
The Prime Minister’s press secretary was in a hurry to emphasize that Reavs “fully support” the PM in a briefing after a half -hour session.
Asked why Sir Keir did not confirm in the Commons that he still believed in his Chancellor, he said: “He has done this again and again.
“Chancellor is not going anywhere. He has full support from the Prime Minister.”
Asked if Sir Keer still had confidence in work and pension secretary Liz Kendal, who did not join his colleagues on the front bench for PMQ, the PM’s press secretary said: “Yes.”
Sir Keir was forced to scrap the major parts of the government’s welfare correction law at the last minute to go to the head of a backbenth rebellion on Tuesday night.
With this step, savings Reeves counted through tax receipts to meet their targets of day-to-day expenses.
At PMQS, Badenoch said that Chancellor, who was sitting next to Sir Kir on the government front bench, “looks absolutely sad”.
He told the PM: “Labor MPs are going on record, saying that Chancellor is a toast, and the reality is that he is a human shield for his disability.”
Reaves was seen to wipe tears during exchanges. Asked why she was upset, her spokesperson said: “This is a personal matter, which – as you expect – we are not going inside.”
But the Badenoch spokesperson said that “personal matter does not really make it clear” as “you generally tell people what the personal case is”.
As Reaves left PMQ, his sister Ali Reeves, who is also a Labor MP, took his hand in a clear show of support.
When Badenoch was challenged to rule over tax growth, Sir Kir said: “No Prime Minister or Chancellor ever stands in the despat box and writes the budget in the future.”
He stressed that the welfare reform bill and more people would get back to work and Tory will be blamed for “stagnation” for welfare problems.
Meanwhile, many of Reeves’ associates and colleagues in Parliament are being convicted for a dispute with Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
Many people have accused him of suddenly with Chancellor in a meeting before PMQ.
It is believed that he had a conversation during the Treasury questions on Tuesday, in which Sir Lindsay asked him to give a small answer.
However, whatever the BBC has not spoken, it is not claiming to look at the conversation personally.
Chancellor’s team has refused to comment. The speaker’s office has been approached for comment.
