Rachel Reeves exaggerated on her CV how long she worked at the Bank of England, it has emerged. The chancellor’s LinkedIn profile claims that she worked at the Bank of England from September 2000 to December 2006, despite publicly claiming to have worked there for a decade. But BBC News reported Ms Reeves had actually left the Bank of England by March 2006, when she began working for Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) in West Yorkshire, meaning she stopped working there nine months earlier than her LinkedIn profile states.
The broadcaster unearthed a photograph of the chancellor in March 2006 alongside other HBOS staff at an annual lunch for the Council of Mortgage Lenders. A former HR lead told the BBC she recalled Ms Reeves’ first day at HBOS, and that it was in March 2006. A spokesman for the chancellor said the error was due to an administrative mistake and that Ms Reeves had not seen it before it was published.
