Reeves’ team is scrambling after Guido revealed she claimed her business occupation was “economist'” on legal documents at a time she has since admitted she was not. Hilariously, the latest spin from her team is that she is “an economist by trade”. “By trade” doing a lot of heavy lifting there…
Treasury sources are now also saying “Rachel Reeves was a trained economist that worked in financial services.” Translation: she wasn’t actually an economist at the time she said she was…
Meanwhile, Number 10 still refuse to answer whether she broke the ministerial code by editing her LinkedIn CV, and Tories continue to accuse Reeves of “brazen lies”, being “bang to rights” and having “serious questions to answer” after Guido’s story last night. No amount of valiant efforts from her team seems likely to bury this one for the Chancellor…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”