Reeves’ team has been working hard at quietly editing her career history at HBOS ever since Guido exposed she wasn’t an ‘economist’ there, rather she worked in the complaints team. First her LinkedIn was changed, then her biography in The Times Guide to the House of Commons. Meanwhile, she ditched her previously much-loved line of ‘I worked as an economist’ at her CBI appearance yesterday…
One Reeves profile remains a lesson in revisionism. On Speakers for Schools’ website – a charity “dedicated to improving social mobility, offering young people free access to inspiring talks and work experience” – Reeves’ current bio states: “Rachel spent her professional career as an economist working for the Bank of England, the British Embassy in Washington and at Halifax Bank of Scotland.”
Presumably her team haven’t got around to updating this one yet…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”
