Reeves’ friend and former Labour minister Siôn Simon was sent out on LBC this morning to defend the Chancellor who is under increasing pressure over her Linkedin CV editing. His argument? Reeves’ edits actually improve her credentials…
“It’s a bit of loose language on a CV or whatever – but it’s much better to have worked in retail banking than to have been an economist at the bank- to have gone into the private sector and worked in operations, as she did in Leeds and I knew her and went to stay with her there at the time, I remember it. It was a much more interesting and challenging thing to have done than just to have been an economist for 10 years.”
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”