Shadow Chancellor: I felt very upset seeing tearful Reeves

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Mel Stride admits he felt "very upset" seeing a tearful Rachel Reeves sitting opposite him at PMQs in the House of Commons. The shadow chancellor adds that he sent her a message to make sure she was alright. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The Prime Minister has made it clear that he is totally in lockstep with the Chancellor.

00:05And I think when people criticise the Chancellor and make points about her,

00:09they should equally be making those points about the Prime Minister.

00:12It is he who presided over the farcical scenes we saw 24 hours ago

00:17when they gutted their welfare bill,

00:20ended up now with an unfunded commitment of multiple billions of pounds

00:24that are probably going to translate into tax increases in the autumn,

00:27which is going to be felt very hard by millions of people up and down the country.

00:32I felt very upset about what I saw yesterday sitting opposite Rachel in the House of Commons.

00:40I messaged her shortly afterwards just to say that I felt for her and I hoped that she was okay.

00:45And of course it's always distressing to see somebody in that situation, yeah.

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