His blunt warning about Rachel Reeves’ future sent shockwaves through Parliament within minutes. The media frenzy hasn’t slowed down since.
The Uncensored host certainly didn’t hold back as he reacted to the Autumn Budget statement.
Piers Morgan warned Rachel Reeves could be gone “before Christmas” (Image: PA)
Rachel Reeves could be gone “much sooner than Christmas” after delivering her explosive Autumn Budget this week. The Chancellor’s measures, including a freeze on income tax thresholds that will mean 1.7million people paying more, take the tax burden to an all-time high, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has since revealed that the threshold freezes, alongside Reeves’ decision to cap pension salary sacrifice schemes, will mean an increase in National Insurance.
Now, Piers Morgan has shared his brutal verdict on the Chancellor’s future in politics in a scathing post on X – formerly known as Twitter. He wrote: “On @BBCNewsnight on Monday night (November 24), I predicted Rachel Reeves would be gone by Christmas.
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“Following her disastrous Budget, which is a betrayal of everything she promised not to do, I expect she will be gone much sooner. Not because she’s a woman, but because she’s hopeless.”
It comes after Reeves suffered a series of car crash interviews on various breakfast shows. She struggled to defend the changes she is implementing in 2026 and refused to admit the Budget has broken its promise not to raise taxes on working people.
Although she acknowledged that these changes would mean working people had to “contribute a bit more,” The manifesto stated: “Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT.”
The tax hikes follow downgraded economic forecasts, as well as increased welfare spending due to the abolition of the two-child benefit cap and a Labour revolt over attempts to curb the benefits bill.
A former Labour MP warned Kier Starmer could be given the boot alongside Reeves this year (Image: Pete Stonier / Stoke Sentinel)
But she’s not the only person whose job is at risk. Morgan’s post comes after a former Labour MP warned that Starmer could face the axe too ahead of Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget.
On the show, politician Simon Danczuk warned the Chancellor that if this budget is poorly received by the public, they both could be out of the office by Christmas. He warned: “This is a survival budget.
“Starmer and Reeves’ political careers depend on this; it will either make or break them. And that’s not just from a public perspective, that’s from a Labour MP perspective because the back benchers are really concerned about what happens from this.”
He warned: “There’s already talk of him being replaced, so if this Budget is a disaster, then I can’t see him lasting much longer than Christmas. I’m going to give him until May next year, but if this budget is really bad, then he could be gone by Christmas.”
