Chancellor ‘economic’ with her CV: Rachel Reeves edits her online qualifications from having experience as ‘economist’ to say she was in ‘retail banking’ [Video]

17:35 EST 15 Nov 2024, updated 20:09 EST 15 Nov 2024

Rachel Reeves has edited her online CV after admitting she was not an economist during her time at the Bank of Scotland.

The Chancellor deleted ‘economist’ from her LinkedIn profile work experience and changed it to ‘retail banking’ during her time at the bank in 2006-9.

The move prompted the Tories to accuse her of ‘deception’ and brand her ‘economical with the truth’.

In her Mansion House speech on Thursday evening, Ms Reeves told guests: ‘Before entering politics, I worked as an economist at the Bank of England. And then in financial services.’

Her LinkedIn CV – which had previously said that she was an economist at the Bank of Scotland has now been updated to say she was in ‘Retail Banking’, the Guido Fawkes political website noted.

It previously reported that she worked in a support department at the Bank of Scotland which managed administration, IT and planning …