Guido’s scoop on Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds falsely claiming to be a solicitor has blown up across the mainstream media. This is the second time Guido has exposed a Labour minister inflating their CV—first, Rachel Reeves’ false claim as being an ‘economist’ at HBOS, now Reynolds’ solicitor fib. Another one caught red-handed…
Labour minister Diana Johnson had the unenviable task of defending her colleague on GB News this morning. When pressed about Guido’s story, Johnson initially tried to fob it off as nothing more than a LinkedIn admin error:
“I understand it… I think there was some, um, issue around, uh, the LinkedIn page, and there was, uh, solicitor and trainee solicitor used, and I don’t think that amounts to changing your CV. I think that was probably an administrative error, as far as I can see.”
GB News wasn’t buying it. They fired back with a Commons clip of Reynolds himself claiming he was a solicitor. Put on the spot about whether he had misled Parliament, Johnson floundered, before desperately trying to reframe it as a mere “slip of the tongue”. Cue Eamonn Holmes laughing in disbelief…
A reminder it wasn’t just LinkedIn or the Commons — the claim was also made on a now-deleted webpage on Jonathan Reynolds’ site, as well as Reynolds tweeting he was a solicitor back in 2011. This story isn’t going away any time soon…
Starmer in PMQs today: “American planes are operating out of British bases. That is the special relationship in action… hanging on to Trump’s latest words is not the special relationship in action.”