Oh, dear. It’s been reported by the excellent Guido Fawkes website that the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, lied on her CV, claiming to have been an economist at Halifax Bank when it turns out she worked in the complaints department.
Well, getting angry complaints is something she’ll need to get used to given her Budget for growth has proved about as unpopular as a Prince Andrew backstage meet and greets.
After all, Rachel Reeves has enraged 10 million pensioners by axing their Winter Fuel Payments, enraged farmers with an inheritance tax rise and enraged businesses with a hike on employer national insurance contributions – which the boss of Deutsche Bank this week called a payroll tax, and may lead to 100,000 workers facing unemployment.
But apart from the terrible policies, Starmer and Reeves’s great crime is actually talking down the economy. With doom and gloom pre-Budget – all for political purposes – and claims of a £20billion black hole, which is proving more elusive than the Loch Ness Monster.
Mark Dolan shared his views on the CV change
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All this negativity has now hit the economy, with new figures this week revealing that growth has dropped from 0.5 per cent under Rishi Sunak in the summer – the highest in the G7 – to 0.1 per cent under Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. If only this Government had a complaints department like Halifax do.
Now, in my big opinion, last month I said that duplicity and dishonesty are a key feature of this new administration. The plot thickens as the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, faces a fresh headache as the Telegraph report that she’s been accused of exaggerating the length of her service working at the Bank of England in a 2021 interview for stylist magazine, to which I subscribe.
Obviously, she said she’d spent a decade working as an economist at the Bank of England and loved it. However, on LinkedIn, a networking website where you show your career history, it lists only a six year period of service at the bank from September 2002 December 2006.
That’s not a decade, is it? Political advisor Henry Newman suggesting a year of that was spent as a student.
Now, this is just days after the Chancellor’s LinkedIn page was edited to change her job title at the Bank of Scotland, from Economist to retail banking, which I think means giving bags of pound coins to shopkeepers, exchanging holidaymakers currency and handing out those free blue pens.
Now, this story may seem trivial after all, my CV says that I’m 28, have a swimmer’s build, and played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. But a pattern is emerging.
Rachel Reeves updated her CV last week
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This is the same Chancellor that said that she did not anticipate raising tax on working people, and has done just that with the aforementioned payroll tax, something that the respected and politically neutral Paul Johnson of the IFS has said will likely impact workers via lower wages, cancelled bonuses and potentially layoffs.
Honesty in politics is important, and Reeves and her ilk were all too keen to point that out during the last administration. They gave Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak dogs abuse over these issues.
So an online archive shows that in 2009 when Rachel Reeves, our first woman Chancellor was campaigning to be an MP, her website said the following:
Rachel has “spent her professional career as an economist working for the Bank of England, the British Embassy in Washington and at Halifax Bank of Scotland.”
Oh dear. The Chancellor is an economist alright, an economist with the truth.
