Rachel Reeves ‘uncomfortable’ listening to Kemi Badenoch’s Budget response

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Rachel Reeves has said she was “uncomfortable” listening to Kemi Badenoch’s response to the Budget, in which the Conservative leader mocked and impersonated the Chancellor.Mrs Badenoch has defended her comments and said her “job is to hold the Government to account, not to provide emotional support for the Chancellor”.

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00:00And I was watching your reaction, and at moments you looked really horrified by how far she went.

00:05Did she cross the line?

00:06I don't like that sort of stuff. I don't do it.

00:08I try and concentrate on policies rather than personalities.

00:13I would just say that Quasi Quarting and Liz Truss's budget, she said, was 100% right.

00:19So I'm not totally sure whether her judgment chimes with the British public.

00:22But as a politician, I have always tried to focus on the issues and not the personalities.

00:27It's just not the sort of politics that I do.

00:30So, yes, I was a bit uncomfortable listening to that because it's not really the way that I behave.

00:35But people are entitled to deliver the budget response that they want.

00:39And she focused on personalities.

00:42I would have preferred to hear Kimmy Baden-Ock set out her alternative economic proposals.

00:47We haven't heard that.

00:48Well, we'll hear from her.

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