Rachel Reeves’s interview disrupted by on-air audio glitch as Chancellor’s voice turns high pitched

Politics
22 May 2025 • 12:34 AM MYT
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A Rachel Reeves interview was stopped mid-air due to a technical glitch that resulted in her voice sounding extremely high pitched.

Discussing recent inflation data from the Office of National Statistics in a squeaky voice, the Chancellor was cut short mid-sentence by Sky News.

Presenter Wilfred Frost had to apologise for the technical blunder: "I think we've got a problem there with the sound, again," he explained.

Inflation rose to 3.5 per cent last month – the largest month-on-month rise in two and a half years.

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