And Kemi Badenoch said the BBC’s investigation raises “serious questions” for Ms Reeves, adding: “Keir Starmer said ‘restoring trust in politics is the greatest test of our era’.
And on Friday, Ms Reeves said: "I submitted, had processed and had my expenses signed off in the proper way as you would expect, and no issues were ever raised during my time at Halifax Bank of Scotland.".
But Ms Reeves’s spokesperson said she did not recall being investigated by HBOS or facing questions over her expenses.
But Labour grandee Dame Siobhain McDonagh said there are “questions to be asked” even as she described the chancellor as “one of the most hardworking, honest politicians that I have ever met”.
Rachel Reeves has said she was “never questioned” over her expenses while working as a banker after claims she was the subject of an investigation over her use of a company card.
