Rachel Reeves lied on her CV was not an “Economist”

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AIBU - it’s OK to lie to get ahead

AINBU - it’s bad RReeves very Publicly lied about her prior work. We are right to feel annoyed by this lie.

saw this headline and am feeling really disappointed. Think Rachel Reeves needs to tell public exactly her job title.
She changed job title from Economist, to “Retail Banking”
An Economist at a Bank, is a clear and specific job, it’s a economic research position. A good experience for her current position.

”Retail Banking” - is not a job title … she could have been doing anything in a branch from Bank Teller, to Branch manager, or working in back office operations putting bank notes in the plastic bags or in HR.

If you want to win the next election - look within. You won't win voters by slagging off the other parties or trying to convince people they're doing a bad job.

The Tories are the official opposition it is their JOB to hold the government to account for their failures.

I'd hope MN isn't in support of OPs that are based on fiction either.

What bit of her having a degree in PPE from Oxford, Masters from LSE in Economics, working for the BoE, being an analyst for Lloyds, makes you think she is unqualified? What has she lied about? She's better qualified and more able than the recent chancellors.

I’m sure, if she has lied, more credible sources than the DM will find out. 🙄

It says right there that she was working in the structural economics analysis division.

Lots of people will be working in that division at a range of different grades, including secretaries and administrators.

She joined as a graduate and was doing economic research and analysis for the Monetary Policy Committee.

Maybe her own entry on Linked In, or do you think RR is not a credible source?

I’m in touch with people who worked there with her

GB News commentator Lee Harris agreed, tweeting: “This is the person in charge of our economy, and she hasn't got a sodding clue what she is doing.

Hilarious quote in the express. I'm sure Lee Harris knows so much more!

So Rachel Reeves was a tea lady and now she's the Chancellor of the Exchequer?

Go Rachel!

Were they inspired by Love Actually?

Growth was already very badly stalled with the UK having spent years at the bottom of the G7 growth tables.

Complete total and utter nonsense. She has a masters in economics from LSE and worked at the Bank if England, before working in the private sector.

More to the point we have had successive Chancellor’s with no background in economics whatsoever. George Osbornes background was in journalism and his degree in history for example. So it is fantastic we have someone running an economics and finance ministry - an exceptionally demanding role - who has an academic background which supports the difficult decision making she is accountable for. I’m personally really pleased that the qualified economist is also a woman. Where are these people concerned for the credentials of shady people like Nadhim Zahawi who for goodness sake was being investigated by HMRC for tax evasion when he became Chancellor and so responsible for tax policy? It’s fucking sexist and partisan to go for Rachel Reeves over a total lie.

This is the key, all CVs put a positive spin on experience.. I've yet to read a CV that says I worked at x and was useless. I don't believe she lied but I think she probably exaggerated the positions she was in like in every CV and I have no problem with that. If you're fairly junior in a team you can't say you lead the team but you can be a key contributor to x project.

I do sympathise with the position she's in though, clearly to improve public services she needs money and there isn't any without raising taxes. It's the usual cycle of need to increase taxes for the NHS, whole population agrees until someone says that means you need to pay more tax, then the opinion changes.

I don't necessarily agree with her politics but we should all respect you don't get to be chancellor without being intelligent.

I had graduates who were research assistants. Not a lot of responsibility.

George Osborne- one of our previous chancellors had a degree in history and as far as known- no economic experience, yet he was in the job for 5 years or more. I'd rather someone like Reeves.

I was working in Monetary Analysis at the Bank at the time. She wasn't a research assistant. She was a graduate economist.

The UK has been at the bottom of the G7 growth tables twice in the last 25 years, and for most of the rest of it around the middle of the road. It’s only been top twice - in 2014 and in the post Covid bounce. But let’s not let facts get in the way of politics ;) The problem is she called it a budget for growth, and Starmer is on record as saying he will make the UK the fastest growing economy in the G7. But the first budget sets us back, instead of moving us forward. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to highlight the contradiction.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370599/g7-country-gdp-growth/

And your point is? Kwarteng’s career at Goldman Sachs - where Reeves was also offered a job - didn’t help the UK economy much, did it?

I have less issue with early career entries on her CV than the fact that Labour are regularly breaking pledges they made in the run up to the election, be it council tax, winter fuel allowance, tax….

Council tax and winter fuel allowance were never mentioned in the manifesto, let alone the subject of pledges. Meanwhile https://pledgeprogress.co.uk/

That is why I didn’t say ‘manifesto’; I said pledges made in the run up to the election.

There’s a bit of a void now we have a serious government rather than a circus full of clowns and criminals running the country, so every little skerrit of non news is being made out to be a scandalous act. Starmer being called out for not accepting free membership of a top knobs golf club. What next? - Wes Streeting didn’t pay his bus fare once or Ange kissed Boy George??

The only pledges that matter are those in the manifesto. I don’t remember council tax or WFA ever being mentioned. Is a source available?

So should all chancellors have an economics qualification, or just the female ones?