"A budget involves choices. Choices are things that we do, and also things that we don't do. I hope that you like every single measure but you might not. "There might be 99 per cent or 95 per cent that you like, but one or five per cent that you don't. The budget is a package. It's not a pick and mix."
"I'll show the media, I'll show the Tories. I will not let them beat me. I'll be there on Wednesday, I'll be there next year and I'll be back the year after that. I don't think even I had recognised the misogyny that still exists in public life,"
"You can see that in the media; they're going for me all the time. It's exhausting. But I'm not going to let them bring me down by undermining my character or my confidence. "I've seen off a lot of those boys before and I"
Rachel Reeves says she will still be Chancellor in two years and vows not to be beaten by media or political opponents. She characterises some criticism as misogyny and calls pre-Budget media leaks "incredibly destabilising." Critics accuse her of using misogyny claims to deflect from perceived poor performance since the last Autumn Budget. Deputy Editor Fraser Myers attributes Reeves' unpopularity to broken promises rather than her sex. Reeves warns that the Budget requires difficult choices and concedes not all measures will please everyone, but she says she will not let attacks undermine her confidence.
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