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Crying in Commons was toughest moment in the job, says Rachel ReevesSunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC

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00:00I think people would want to know what the hardest bit's been and what the best bit has been.
00:04So what's the hardest? Is there a moment where you really felt the big, big strain?
00:07What's the hardest thing been?
00:09Well, I would say, don't cry on national television.
00:13That was probably my toughest moment, or perhaps even tougher,
00:17seeing the photos of me crying on national television on the front page of pretty much every newspaper the following
00:22day.
00:23But even that day was better than the 14 years in opposition when I was powerless to change anything in
00:31this country.
00:32I don't want to pry about it unnecessarily, but you raised it.
00:35Would you tell people what was going on?
00:37Because there was a rumour you'd had a fight with the speaker and something else had happened.
00:40It was a tough day, and we all have tough days.
00:43You know, I talked to my friends and people wrote to me saying, you know, that happened to me once.
00:48And the only difference is I was on the telly.
00:50And so, you know, people have difficult days at work, and that was one for me.
00:55But yeah, that's where you should cry, not on the television.
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