After Guido debunked Reeves’ “economist at HBOS” myth, her LinkedIn CV was quietly edited to say she worked in “retail banking” at Halifax. It turns out, that’s not the only official bio that’s been edited…
In the latest edition of the of Guide – the hardcover published November 7th 2024 (after Guido’s story) – Reeves’ bio has changed again to: “Worked in the retail arm of HBOS, 2006-09, economist at the Bank of England.” Yet another example of Reeves’ career history being edited, presumably with an intervention from her team…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”
