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…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”