Reeves faced expenses probe in previous job

As birthdays go, this is unlikely to be Rachel Reeves’s most enjoyable – thanks to an unexpected present from the BBC. Its journalists have been busy digging around the Chancellor’s CV claims – detailed in Mr S’s full timeline here – and the corporation has accused Reeves of exaggerating how long she spent working at the Bank of England. And, in a move that has become almost habitual for the Labour Chancellor in recent months, it appears ‘Rachel from accounts’ has changed her LinkedIn CV yet again…

Reeves initially claimed in an interview with Stylist that she ‘spent a decade working as an economist at the Bank of England’ – although her LinkedIn page asserted she had worked there from September 2000 to December 2006. But it now transpires, via the Beeb, that the Chancellor left nine months earlier than she had claimed online, with photos from March 2006 showing Reeves with different employers from Halifax Bank of Scotland at a formal lunch.