Reeves’ friend and former Labour minister Siôn Simon was sent out on LBC this morning to defend the Chancellor who is under increasing pressure over her Linkedin CV editing. His argument? Reeves’ edits actually improve her credentials…
“It’s a bit of loose language on a CV or whatever – but it’s much better to have worked in retail banking than to have been an economist at the bank- to have gone into the private sector and worked in operations, as she did in Leeds and I knew her and went to stay with her there at the time, I remember it. It was a much more interesting and challenging thing to have done than just to have been an economist for 10 years.”
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”