Full timeline: Rachel Reeves’s CV claims

Dear oh dear. Rachel Reeves has ended up in something of a pickle over her employment history, with the Chancellor under fire over whether she has been straight with the public about her economist background. Certainly after that Budget, Mr S is hardly surprised eyebrows are being raised…

Pressure has been piling on Reeves for weeks, with questions arising around exactly how long she worked at various institutions, exactly what she worked as and whether she has been playing fast and loose with the truth of the matter. As the curious case of the Labour MP’s CV rumbles on, Steerpike has pulled together a list of exactly which of her claims have been challenged when. Here’s the full timeline:

LinkedIn history

Reeves has long publicised her employment background on LinkedIn, with the now-Chancellor initially stating that she worked as an economist at the Bank of England between September 2000 and December 2006, before immediately taking another economist role at the Bank of Scotland until December 2009.