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’.

The Mirror's Sophie Huskisson was in the room for Rachel Reeves's first public appearance since she was seen crying in the Commons during PMQs - here's what happened inside