Posted on 02/13/2025 2:49:25 AM PST by RandFan
Rachel Reeves's online CV exaggerates how long she spent working at the Bank of England.
The Chancellor left the financial institution nine months earlier than she states in her LinkedIn profile. This means she spent five and a half years working at the bank - including nearly a year studying - despite publicly claiming to have spent a decade there.
On the professional networking site LinkedIn, the Chancellor's profile claims she worked at the Bank of England from September 2000 to December 2006.
However, BBC News has established she had left by March 2006 when she began working for Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) in West Yorkshire.
A photo taken in March 2006 shows her with other HBOS staff at the Council of Mortgage Lenders annual lunch.
A former HR lead for the bank who helped with Reeves's relocation also said she could recall her first day and it was in March 2006.
A spokesman for Reeves confirmed that dates on her LinkedIn were inaccurate and said it was due to an administrative error by the team.
They said the Chancellor hadn't seen it before it was published.
The Chancellor has cited her time as an economist at the Bank of England as part of the reason she can be trusted with the nation's finances and has repeatedly claimed to have spent up to 10 years there.
In a 2021 magazine interview, which she subsequently posted on X, she said: "I spent a decade working as an economist at the Bank of England and loved it."
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There were rumors that (s)he was on the way out...I guess now the process has started.
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