Reeves was forced to sit through a brutal summary of her CV scandal this morning from Richard Madeley:
“You told Stylist magazine that you’d worked at the Bank of England for a decade – in fact it was only six years, and one of those years was at the London School of Economics doing a master’s course. So that’s five years and not a decade, and in biographies that you’d actually endorsed it was stated that you worked as an economist at the Bank of England, the British Embassy in Washington, and latterly at the Halifax Bank of Scotland, but according to your former colleagues you actually worked in a support department at Scottish bank and you helped out with admin and IT. And that’s all earned you the nickname of ‘Rachel from Accounts.’ Did you enhance your CV to make yourself look better qualified to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer if you won the election?”
Reeves delivered now well-trodden careful bluster in response, citing her undergraduate degree and masters as well as experience in the “private sector” as evidence of her expertise. Madeley was having none of it…
Labour peer Lord Blunkett told BBC Radio 4:
“[Starmer] needs a new chief of staff, he needs an opening up of the routes to him so that people can reach him and he can hear what people are thinking and feeling. Things are dire…Once again let’s try and get our act together and speak with a common voice about what we’re about.”