I’ve been more than slightly troubled by Rachel Reeves’s CV, and I’ve been wondering if she was ‘let go’ by one or even both of her main employers – the Bank of England (BoE) and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS). I don’t have much material to back up my suspicions, but sometimes in life, we find ourselves in situations where we have to make a judgement based on inadequate information and our experience. Having worked in almost 100 organisations in the private and public sectors across fifteen countries, and having been hired and fired several times in my less than distinguished career, I believe one can develop what our German friends, in their melodic language, call ‘fingerspitzengefühl’ (fingertips feeling) about certain situations. And that’s what I’ve tried to use for this article.
Let’s start with Rachel Reeves’s time at the BoE. According to PA Media Factcheck, the Bank of England confirmed to the PA news agency that Ms. Reeves worked for them during the dates on the LinkedIn page (2000 to 2006). This includes a stint with the British Embassy in Washington DC, which was a secondment from the U.K.’s central bank – and which Ms. Reeves talked about in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, in August 2023. Some of Ms. Reeves’s time at the Bank can also be charted through papers she contributed to during her employment there.
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