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.”
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”