Rachel needed a hug. Instead Starmer did the opposite
There are moments in life where you just have to set aside politics and remember that, at the end of the day, we are all human.
I thought that years ago, when Margaret Thatcher’s eyes welled up as she left No 10 for good. It wasn’t the first time we had seen her cry – back in 1982 she had lost her composure after her son, Mark, went missing in the desert.
This time, though, people seemed to delight in the sight of her reduced to tears; but the truth is that in that moment she was not the Iron Lady at all, just an ordinary woman. You would have needed a heart of stone not to feel sorry for her.
It was the same yesterday in Parliament as a big fat tear rolled down the Chancellor Rachel...
