Rachel was a key member of Team Ed when he stood for the leadership of the Labour party in 2010 and was rewarded with a shadow cabinet job the following year despite having only been an MP for 12 months.
Partly because they didn’t want to turn a private row into a public one, but largely because they didn’t want to make life more difficult than it already is for Ed.
Just how muchthe Labour backbenchers love Miliband could be seen by the number of difficult questions they asked him.
For the last ten days or so, Ed Miliband has been the Invisible Man.
A large number of the cabinet were in Oxfordshire for Rachel Reeves’s growth speech last Wednesday.
