Rachel Reeves: Burnham needs worked-through plan to govern | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

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Rachel Reeves has warned the incoming prime minister, Andy Burnham, that he needs to be properly prepared to govern when he arrives in Downing Street in a little more than a week. Speaking exclusively to the BBC in what is likely to be her last major interview as chancellor, Reeves told Laura Kuenssberg that "it is important that when Andy walks through that door he has a worked-through plan, because governing is hard in Britain, and lots of challenges and shocks will come his way". She said her toughest time as Chancellor had been when she was seen in tears in the House of Commons during a session of Prime Minister's Questions in July last year. Reeves said: "Don't cry on national television. That was probably my toughest moment, or perhaps even tougher, seeing the photos of me crying on national television on the front page of pretty much every newspaper the following day." She said Burnham and his team coming into Downing Street must be "really clear about what they want to achie

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