I previously wrote a piece for the Daily Sceptic about Rachel Reeves’s career progression. In particular I looked at how and why she moved from being an economist at the centre of the economic action at the Bank of England (BoE) in London and Washington to what seems to have been an administrative job at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) in Leeds and then left HBOS in 2009 after HBOS had collapsed, had been taken over by Lloyds and over 15,000 jobs were cut including around 460 at the Leeds office where Reeves had worked. From this I wondered whether Reeves had actually been ‘let go’ by both the BoE and HBOS rather than leaving voluntarily to further her career.
Following my Daily Sceptic article, I was contacted by a Daily Sceptic reader who had been doing a bit of digging and who suggested some further questions that could be asked about Rachel Reeves’s qualifications and career and whether she was actually the right person to serve as Britain’s Chancellor. So, here are some more questions to which we who pay Reeves’s generous salary, pension and expenses are possibly owed an answer.
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