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The Shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride, joins us now
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Very good to see you this morning. I know it's hard, but we need to start with your counterpart
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and what we saw yesterday. What's your assessment? Well, I think what we saw yesterday was quite upsetting, actually
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to witness, to be frank. I had no idea that Rachel was going to come in
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in that particular situation, clearly very stressed. I messaged her afterwards just to say I hope that she was all right
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and that I felt for her at that particular moment in time
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Yeah, it was a very difficult moment in the Commons, I think, in that personal way
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Do you know what? Because a lot of people think politics is so combative
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it's quite nice to know that actually you can reach across the aisle
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in these sort of situations? Yeah, I think that's really important for people to focus on actually, is there's so
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much brutality in politics and you see it from other politicians, you see it from the
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press the media social media and so on but never to forget that people are ultimately human beings and in the case of politicians the vast majority of them they may disagree about things and how to do the right thing for the country and so on At the end of the day they in there doing their best around what they actually believe And yes when somebody
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in a difficult personal situation like that, my heart went out to her
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And I mean, we're being told it's for personal reasons. One of the many things that may have
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upset her yesterday was the prime minister failing to back her in the comments when she
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He was asked to do so by Kemi Badenock. Do you think that the Chancellor will still be in her post
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to deliver the autumn budget? Well, we'll have to wait and see where all of that goes
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We know that subsequently the Prime Minister has come out and said that the Chancellor will stay in post
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until the next general election. Well, if that was always the case, it seems to me that he completely bungled it at the dispatch box yesterday
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by not stating that clearly then, because that is one of the reasons why we've seen this spike in gilt yields
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in the gilts market, which of course means higher interest rates for our country to borrow money and ultimately has got to be paid for
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almost certainly by way of higher taxes at the budget in the autumn
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So it was a massive misstep by the Prime Minister, one of many, I have to say, if you look at all these U-turns
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that he's bungled around as well, that we saw yesterday
