Rachel Reeves can be trusted – says her colleague Peter Kyle. Are you convinced?
Kyle has tried to cast doubt on the BBC’s investigation into claims that the now-Chancellor misspent expenses money when she was at Halifax Bank of Scotland between 2006 and 2009.
He says this is because “the head of HR at that bank at that time says it’s untrue, said that she never, ever received a file on Rachel Reeves… And she’s also said if there was one, it would have passed her desk”.
He then ruined his point by saying he had not seen anything like that reported by the BBC, which had made it clear that HBOS HR business partner (not boss) Jane Wayper had made such a claim – in its report.
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And this does not negate the fact that Reeves had falsely claimed to have worked as an economist at the Bank of England for “the best part of a decade” when in fact she was there for four-and-a-half years, after doing a year of training.
The point is that people lie – or at the very least tell untruths (if they won’t admit knowing the things they say are false).
We know there was an investigation into Reeves’s behaviour at HBOS but we don’t know its outcome, so people who were involved at the time have an opening to say whatever they want about it.
We must therefore draw our own conclusions, basing them on available facts showing that she has made false claims and therefore cannot be trusted to be telling the truth now.
Remember, her online LinkedIn cv has already been “corrected” once, after it was revealed that she was a complaints manager at HBOS, and not an “economist” as she had claimed. The entry now states that her role there was “retail banking”.
Kyle ruined his point by making a false claim about the BBC’s report. His intervention has only made matters worse for the embattled Chancellor.
And Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s comment is little better.
He said Reeves was a “serious economist” doing a “brilliant and difficult job”.
But her plans for economic growth have been denigrated as “fantasy” schemes, while her insistence that growth is vital without making any moves to tackle growing wealth inequality in the UK makes her ambition pointless; the vast majority of people in the UK will not get any benefit from any economic growth she manages to stimulate.
These colleagues of Rachel Reeves have only made her situation worse.
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Reeves can be trusted – says her colleague. Are you convinced?
Rachel Reeves can be trusted – says her colleague Peter Kyle. Are you convinced?
Kyle has tried to cast doubt on the BBC’s investigation into claims that the now-Chancellor misspent expenses money when she was at Halifax Bank of Scotland between 2006 and 2009.
He says this is because “the head of HR at that bank at that time says it’s untrue, said that she never, ever received a file on Rachel Reeves… And she’s also said if there was one, it would have passed her desk”.
He then ruined his point by saying he had not seen anything like that reported by the BBC, which had made it clear that HBOS HR business partner (not boss) Jane Wayper had made such a claim – in its report.
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And this does not negate the fact that Reeves had falsely claimed to have worked as an economist at the Bank of England for “the best part of a decade” when in fact she was there for four-and-a-half years, after doing a year of training.
The point is that people lie – or at the very least tell untruths (if they won’t admit knowing the things they say are false).
We know there was an investigation into Reeves’s behaviour at HBOS but we don’t know its outcome, so people who were involved at the time have an opening to say whatever they want about it.
We must therefore draw our own conclusions, basing them on available facts showing that she has made false claims and therefore cannot be trusted to be telling the truth now.
Remember, her online LinkedIn cv has already been “corrected” once, after it was revealed that she was a complaints manager at HBOS, and not an “economist” as she had claimed. The entry now states that her role there was “retail banking”.
Kyle ruined his point by making a false claim about the BBC’s report. His intervention has only made matters worse for the embattled Chancellor.
And Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s comment is little better.
He said Reeves was a “serious economist” doing a “brilliant and difficult job”.
But her plans for economic growth have been denigrated as “fantasy” schemes, while her insistence that growth is vital without making any moves to tackle growing wealth inequality in the UK makes her ambition pointless; the vast majority of people in the UK will not get any benefit from any economic growth she manages to stimulate.
These colleagues of Rachel Reeves have only made her situation worse.
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The Livingstone Presumption is available
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Health Warning: Government! is now available
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
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