Flagship BBC panel show Have I Got News for You took skewering Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves to new levels, when team captain Ian Hislop used her own words to humiliate the minister on TV. Aside from aiming some spectacular digs at Reeves – branding her a “fiscal drag queen” and joking she was “looking for some growth” when spotted using a microscope – he twisted the Chancellor’s words against her.

Sitting on the panel alongside host Richard Ayoade, panellists Richard Osman and Bella Hull, and rival team captain Paul Merton, Ian joked: “The main thing was that Rachel Reeves said there’d be no tax rises and there aren’t. It just means everyone will pay more tax, which is completely different. And that’s not breaking a manifesto pledge at all.

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