It’s Budget day and, as Rachel Reeves’s luck would have it, the OBR report she was expected to reveal today was published online, er, ahead of her fiscal statement. Consequently her opponents had a 30-minute heads up to read over the details and bolster their response to the Chancellor’s plans. But it wasn’t just her policies Tory leader Kemi Badenoch went after today – the Conservative MP’s attacks got pretty personal…

Badenoch blasted Reeves’s statement as an ‘exercise in self-delusion’, before mocking the Chancellor over a recent series of interviews in which she claimed she was fed up of being ‘mansplained’ too. In a quite stunning evisceration, Badenoch tore into a rather uncomfortable looking Reeves:

Madam Deputy Speaker, let me explain to the Chancellor. Woman to woman. People out

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