Who is Rahel Reeves?

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Political reporter

Rachel Reeves has made a bumpy in the first few months in the government.
Their tax-hiking budget inspired criticism from businesses and farmers, and despite the pledge to promote the economy at the center of its plans despite labor, development has been dull.
Now the Chancellor is facing questions about whether he has exaggerated his experience on his online CV and used expenses while working in the banking sector before becoming an MP.
Reeves was born in 1979 in South-East London, a few months before Margaret Thecher became Prime Minister at the time of immense social and economic change.
He told BBC earlier His mother will sit on the kitchen table and tick the goods on a bank statement against the receipts: “We were not poor, but we did not have the money to waste.”
When she was in a primary school, her parents separated, and she and younger sister Eli, also a labor MP, closed between different houses.
During the school holidays, the sisters spent time in Northamptonshire city catering with their grandparents.
They would be taken to relatives’ houses, which gave them each 20P or 50p piece. At the end of his week, he was taken to the local toy shop to choose his gifts. While Ellie will spend all his cash, the young Rachel will allow himself a small treatment and will save most of the money.
Decades later, Chancellor Reeves would say that such restraint defines him, and he has very modeling herself on Gordon Brown’s “Prudence” led by Labor’s 1997 election victory.
Chess talent
Reeves played chess from an early age, his father taught him the major tricks. She became a national under -14 champion, and according to Ellie, would “silent” any boy “silently”, who could think that they were for an easy game.
He has credited chess to teach him “To think further, to plan a strategy”.
A curious flute player, he took his music GCSE a year ago to achieve four A grades in the Setter Park School for Girls of Bekenham, a broad, a broad, a broad, a broad, a broad, a broad, a broad, and a-level.
Given the boundary of her school cut, where the library was converted into an orbit and the sixth was included in the sixth form of “two pre—-fb huts”, she has said that she has politicized from her experience of public services Was done. At the age of 16, she joined the labor party.
She went to Oxford University to study philosophy, politics and economics. As a student, she would host others before the college disco, destroy Destiny’s child songs and dressing in her room.
Despite his serious conduct, colleagues and friends have suggested that the public personality of the Labor MP does not reflect his human side, including a loud laughter and deep love of the tracks.
Rachel Reeves: Basics
age: 4
Birth place: Levishm, South-East London
Education: New College, Oxford and London School of Economics
Family: During his time as Chancellor, she married Nicholas Josi, a senior civil servant of Gordon Brown and former speech writer Nicholas Josi. they have two children. His sister is the President of the Labor Party, Ali Reeves.
Parliamentary constituency: Leeds West and Pudse

After graduation, Reaves played a role as an economist in the Bank of England.
He worked at the Central Bank’s Japan Desk, which in the 1990s in view of its efforts to come out of the country’s stagnation.
During each other for the UK embassy in Washington, she met her future husband Nicholas Josi, who spent time as a film critic for newspapers and the then Chancellor Gordon Brown for newspapers.
CVS and expenditure
Before becoming an MP for Leeds West in 2010, Reeves moved to the city and spent time working for the retail arm of Halifax Bank of Scotland.
His career in HBOS is now under investigation, The BBC revealed that Reaves and two colleagues were the topic of checking a expenditure. While she was a senior manager in the bank.
The initial stage of the HBOS investigation found that a whistleblower complaint was confirmed, and the three employees have broken the rules, according to a senior source with direct knowledge of the investigation.
The BBC is not able to install what was the final result of the investigation and it would not have been concluded.
A spokesperson of Reeves said that the Chancellor had no knowledge of investigation, always complied with the rules of spending and left the bank on good terms.
Reeves has also faced questions about its online CV accuracy, Which the BBC found the length of the time of working at Bank of England exaggerated,
A spokesperson of Reeves confirmed that the dates on his linkedIn were wrong and convicted an administrative error by the team.
Last year, his LinkedIn profile was also replaced to describe his role as “retail banking” in HBOS.
It had earlier claimed that he had worked as an economist in the bank, but instead he played a management role in the bank’s customer relations department, which dealt with complaints.

Literary
Entering Parliament in 2010, an early patron on the economic policy was during the Alastair Darling – Final Labor Chancellor, Financial Crisis.
He quickly increased the party’s rank, played a role in Treasury, work and pension and cabinet office.
During the four and a half years of Jeremy Corbin as a labor leader, she lived on the backbench as she felt that she could not support her policies. The party called the “red tori” by some people, described it as a “very unpleasant period”. In an interview with Nick Robinson of BBC,
Was a former editor of BBC’s Newsnight Program Forced to release a written apology for Reeves In a post on social media, it was a personal message after calling him “boring snoring”.
While he said that the incident was “deeply derogatory”, his main purpose after Sir Kir Stmper appointed his shadow Chancellor was to portray labor as a stable, pro -businessman on the economy.
In October 2023, he admitted that he should have “done better” after some route emerged in his book, The Women’s Hu Made Modern Economics, was removed from other sources without acknowledgment.
He told BBC Some sentences were “not properly referred to” and will be corrected in future repurles.

‘Iron Chancellor’
In the last July, Reeves became the first female Chancellor of the country and quickly faced, which she described as a “difficult choice”.
He claimed that a “black hole” in the country’s finance means that winter fuel payment would have to be cut for millions of pensioners and national insurance for employers.
Despite the efforts of the labor of winning businesses during the election campaign, many were disappointed that they declared £ 40BN in the growth by announcing their first budget.
Before winning power, Reavs promised that she would rule with “iron discipline” and bring stability for public finance, making it compare with the conservative “Iron Chancellor” Margaret Thatcher.
Now Reeves is under pressure to give the promised economic development by his party, while also ensuring that people feel better.