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Watch: Hunt mocks Rachel Reeves’s copy and pasting

Jeremy Hunt isn’t exactly known for his sparkling wit, but he did manage a decent gag during his Autumn Statement this afternoon – at the expense of Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Readers may remember that Reeves was recently found to have plagiarised several sentences in her new book from Wikipedia and other online articles. (Reeves later bizarrely defended herself by saying, ‘if I’m guilty of copying and pasting some facts about some amazing women and turning it into a book that gets read then I’m really proud of that.’)

After pointing out that his opposite number on the Labour benches had failed to mention inflation during her conference speech, Hunt argued that it shouldn’t have been difficult given his speech took place first. All she had to do was ‘a bit of copy and pasting, which I’ve heard she’s good at’.

Mr S has to say that Reeves didn’t look like she enjoyed the joke…

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