Chancellor Rachel Reeves has made a surprise appearance alongside Sir Keir Starmer, one day after she was seen crying at Prime Minister's Questions.Helping to unveil the government's 10-year plan for the NHS,

The Chancellor was visibly distressed, wiping tears from her cheeks as Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tore into the government ’s climbdown over welfare the previous evening. According to Reeves’ spokesperson, the reason she was upset was a ‘personal matter, which – as you would expect – we are not going to get into’.

A minister told The Mirror they did not know what the row was about, but that "[Speaker Hoyle] ended up apologising." A spokesperson for the Commons Speaker declined to comment.