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…
Starmer loyalist and Housing Secretary Steve Reed told Sky News that Starmer should not be replaced:
“We saw what the Tories did. They were in power for 14 years, and after 2016, I think we had nine education secretaries, seven chancellors, and five Prime Ministers. Doomscrolling through Prime Ministers doesn’t resolve the problem.”