Rachel Reeves’ Six Months as a Non-Working Person
Rachel Reeves is set on Wednesday to break her party’s manifesto pledge, which states: “Labour will not increase taxes on working people.” The Chancellor and PM have offered many definitions for who ‘working people‘ are. Before the election Reeves said “Working people are people who go out to work and work for their incomes.”
Rachel resigned from Halifax Bank of Scotland in December 2009, where she worked – as Guido revealed last week – in a mundane support department managing administration matters. This has been confirmed by her team, who, when Guido asked where she worked instead, said she stood as a parliamentary candidate. An unpaid role, which means that Reeves spent around 150 days as a non-working person before the election in May…
Westminster sources say six months is a long time to be a parliamentary candidate without another job. They point out that Leeds West was a highly safe Labour seat at the time and didn’t demand intensive campaigning. Reeves was already the prospective parliamentary candidate from the summer…
Gordon Brown announced the election on 6th April 2010 – long after Reeves became a full-time unpaid campaigner. Testimony from sources who worked in the bank during this period say that after Lloyds took over HBOS personnel from several departments left in agreement with the firm. How did she manage as a non-working person for six months without an expense account?
