Rachel Reeves has exaggerated her time working at the Bank of England as the Chancellor has been caught embellishing her CV.
Reeves left the financial institution nine months earlier than stated in her LinkedIn profile.
She has publicly claimed to have spent a decade working there, however it it shown she spent five and a half years working at the bank, including almost a year studying.
The Chancellor’s LinkedIn profile claims she worked at the Bank of England from September 2000 to December 2006.
Reeves left the financial institution nine months earlier that stated in her Linkedin profile
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However the BBC has found that in reality she left her job in March 2006 and began working for Halifax Bank of Scotland in West Yorkshire.
A photo from March 2006 shows her with other HBOS employees at the Council of Mortgage Lenders yearly lunch.
A former HR lead from the bank also confirmed she recalled Reeves’s first day as being in March 2006.
A spokesman for the Chancellor confirmed the error in her Linkedin, claiming it was due to an admin error by the team.
The spokesman added that Reeves had not seen it before it was published.
The Chancellor has previously cited her time as an economist at the Bank of England as part of the reason she can be trusted with the UK’s finances, repeatedly claiming to have spent up to 10 years there.
Speaking at a Labour Party Business Conference in February, she said: “I spent the best part of a decade as an economist at the Bank of England.”
The claim was then repeated in a Labour party document last year which claimed that she spent “most of the first decade of her career at the Bank of England”.
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