Fresh twist to Rachel Reeves’ CV row after claim made in legal filing emerges

A FRESH twist to Rachel Reeves’ CV enactment emerged past night, implicit a assertion made successful a ineligible filing.

When Ms Reeves became a manager of Leeds-based charity Barca successful May 2008, she claimed to beryllium an “economist” connected a papers sent to authorities bureau Companies House.

But past week the Chancellor clarified she was successful information moving astatine the clip successful “retail banking” for Halifax.

A root adjacent to Ms Reeves insisted she is an “economist by trade”.

It came arsenic No10 yesterday refused to accidental Rachel Reeves has followed ministerial integrity rules aft the Chancellor was accused of lying connected her CV.

Tory shadiness ministers demanded Ms Reeves travel cleanable aft her LinkedIn leafage was softly edited past week.

The Chancellor’s assertion that she worked arsenic an economist astatine the Bank of Scotland betwixt 2006 and 2009 was changed to authorities that she held a relation successful “retail banking” for Halifax.

No10 yesterday dodged questions implicit whether Ms Reeves has been “straight with the public” astir her past employment.

The PM’s spokesperson said: “He is precise wide that this is simply a Chancellor that has been consecutive with the nationalist astir the authorities of the nationalist finances and what is indispensable to reconstruct fiscal stableness – that is astir important.”