Reeves is due this afternoon to sit down for questions in a “fireside chat” at the CBI annual conference. The Chancellor is under significant pressure over her career history after Guido exposed her LinkedIn CV edits…
Reeves no longer claims she was an economist at HBOS after Guido revealed her real position was in administrative complaints. Hacks have also seized on Reeves’ six years at the Bank of England, pointing to a tweet from 2012 in which she describes herself as a ‘very junior Japan analyst’ in her first years at the bank. Guido can reveal that Reeves wasn’t even described as an actual “Economist” two years into the job…
In February of 2002 Rachel wrote in favour of a pro-Comprehensive School campaign by the Campaign for State Education. The following blurb introduced her:
“Rachel Reeves is a 23-year-old trainee economist at the Bank of England. She attended Cator Park School, Beckenham from 1990- 1997 and New College Oxford from 1997-2000.”
Reeves was two years into her job at the Bank of England at this point and was soon to depart to Washington to work away from the Bank in the British Embassy. On her return, she spent a year out at LSE to complete a masters, which she received in 2004. Within another year she would be selected as Labour candidate for Bromley and Chislehurst and barred from working at the BoE for months. Their rules state employees are “required to take unpaid leave from the point of adoption as a prospective candidate until the election.” The same thing occurred when she stood in the by-election the next year. Even as a trainee two years into the job Reeves was pitching in to political campaigns – was working as an actual economist too boring for her?
Reform MP Danny Kruger welcomed adult film star Bonnie Blue’s support for the party, adding:
“I’m not going to be judgemental about people who want to vote Reform. We want all the support we can get – quite like Bonnie Blue.”