Tense moment Reeves refuses to meet Kemi Badenoch's eye in TV showdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : 'The only thing that was unfunded was the welfare payments which she has made and she's doing it on the backs of a lot of people out there who are working very hard and getting poorer.
43% : and then they wouldn't be as upset when she finally announced it - and still sneak in those tax rises to pay for welfare.
41% : The barbed comments came after the Tory leader said Ms Reeves 'lied' about the state of the finances in order to soften up the public for monster Budget tax hikes Despite the on-screen froideur, behind-the-scenes photos suggest that the pair did share a joke at one point 'My job is to hold the Government to account, not to provide emotional support for the Chancellor and the people out there wanted someone to tell her she was doing a bad job, and I had to make sure that I got that message across.' Ms Badenoch added: 'I don't care whether people misbehave at the despatch box.
38% : 'She was raising taxes to pay for welfare.
37% : Rachel Reeves studiously avoided meeting the gaze of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch as they both prepared to be interviewed on the BBC this morning Ms Reeves complained that she had been made 'uncomfortable' by the Opposition chief's brutal attacks on the Budget in the Commons Mrs Badenoch told presenter Laura Kuenssberg that her 'job is to hold the Government to account, not to provide emotional support for the Chancellor' The Tories have accused Ms Reeves of 'lying' to soften the country up for tax increases The barbed comments came after the Tory leader said Ms Reeves 'lied' about the state of the finances in order to soften up the public for monster Budget tax hikes.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.